Notre Dame Cathedral survived a massive fire. Destroyed one of the main symbols of the Christian world, France and the Old World. There is a formidable symbolism in this event.. Burning Notre Dame de Paris is a dying Roman Catholic Church, Christian civilization and old Europe, including France.
The old world is leaving, he is replaced by a new one, where Christians and white Europeans are an aging and dying minority. When to replace the white French, Italians, Germans, the British and the Swedes, who are mired in a society of consumption and self-destruction, hedonism, lost the traditional family and society, come much more viable representatives of the Arab-Muslim world, Black Africa and Asia. Where is the Christian (biblical) civilization was replaced by post-Christian, "multicultural". In some places even "satanic" - misanthropic, darkness culture, mixed with mysticism and Satanism. At the same time, the Islamic world is coming, and on the site of the temples there are mosques. It's even possible, that the already quite visible future of Western Europe is the “caliphate”. And a mosque will someday be built on the site of Notre Dame Cathedral, how the early Christians built the first church here on the basis of the Roman temple of Jupiter.
From the history of the cathedral
Cathedral of Notre Dame (Notre Dame) - the most impressive and famous monument of early Gothic, which opened a new era in Western European architecture. Notre Dame has been a historical symbol of Paris and French art for many centuries.. The cathedral represented the French monarchy, Roman church. The construction of the temple began in 1163 year, under King Louis VII. And the first stone in the foundation of the cathedral was laid by Pope Alexander III. The initiative in the creation of this project belonged to the Parisian Bishop Maurice de Sully. Notre Dame has become a symbol of French royalty. No wonder many centuries later, 2 December 1804 of the year, also in the presence of the pope at Notre Dame, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France.
Located in the eastern part of the Island of the City (the oldest part of the city) on the river Seine, Notre Dame was built on the site of St.. Stefan, there was also a church in honor of the Holy Mother. And before the domination of Christians, the Roman temple of Jupiter was located here - in ancient Roman mythology, the god of the sky, thunderer (corresponds to the ancient Greek Zeus). It was business as usual. Many Christian churches, shrines were built on foundations, ruins of the old religious, pagan structures. The population was more easily accustomed to the new religion. By the XII century, the first Christian churches fell into decay and the Parisian bishop decided to erect a new temple. Thus began the history of Notre Dame de Paris.
The main construction was completed during the life of Bishop de Sully (died in 1196 year). AT 1185 year, the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem, Eraclius, held a service in an almost completed cathedral. However, in the future, the cathedral continued to change, built new buildings. As a result, construction continued until the middle of the XIV century.. Therefore, the monument was built by several generations of architects., which led to a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles.
According to the original intention, the main cathedral of Paris was supposed to accommodate the entire population of the city. Then Paris was by modern standards a small city with a population of about 10 thousand. human. Therefore, Notre Dame Cathedral contains about 9 thousand. human. In the middle nave of the cathedral (from Latin navis - "ship", the main area of the temple, bounded on one or both longitudinal sides by a row of column-pillars, separating it from neighboring naves-premises), he is the largest of the five, can accommodate a 12-storey building. For central naves cross each other, like a cross, on which Jesus Christ was crucified.
Fire 15 April 2019 He has shown, that the building is very elevated, fragile. In fact, there are no walls in the cathedral, everything is on poles, connected by arches. In the openings of the arches - stained-glass windows. Lots of wooden structures.
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Three pointed arches are the entrances. They are decorated with statues of angels., prophets and saints. Sculptures of biblical kings adorn the niches of the cornice. In the Middle Ages, when the vast majority of the population of Europe was illiterate, including the upper class - the feudal lords, such cathedrals, like notre dame, were a kind of picture book for children. The Whole History of the Bible, from the fall of Adam and Eve to the Last Judgment, was featured in numerous images of the church. On the other hand, the temple had its own mystical history. Scary chimeras and gargoyles, who "watch" from the rooftop the endless stream of parishioners and tourists, created their own mythology, occult theories. Not for nothing that the famous French writer Victor Hugo called Notre Dame de Paris "the most satisfactory concise reference book of the occult".
Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the most magnificent and great works of human art. Besides, according to Catholics, the temple contains one of the great Christian relics - the Crown of Thorns of Jesus Christ. According to the gospels, this crown was placed on the head of Jesus Christ by the Roman legionaries during the trial. At first, the crown was kept on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, then, at 1063 year, he was transported to the palace of the Byzantine basileus emperors in Constantinople. After the defeat of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the knights-crusaders in 1204 the crown was stolen. AT 1238 in the year the French king Louis IX the Saint acquired a relic for a huge amount from the Venetians. In its turn, the holy relic in Venice was laid by the last Latin emperor Baldwin II de Courtenay (Latin empire - state, created by the French knights on the site of Byzantium). In August 1239 the French king handed over the great relic of Christians to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. A few years later, Sainte-Chapelle was built at the royal palace on the Ile de la Cité. (holy chapel) to store the Crown of Thorns and other Christian shrines - fragments of the Cross of the Lord, spears, with which Jesus was pierced, etc.. The relic was in the chapel until the French Revolution. Later, the crown was transferred to the treasury of Notre Dame de Paris..
Crown of Thorns at Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame has experienced many great events. Here the crusader knights prepared their souls before leaving for the war for the Holy Sepulcher, French monarch Philip IV 1302 convened the States General - the prototype of the future parliament. Here 16 December 1431 crowned King Henry VI of France, the only one of all English monarchs. He was both king of England and France. During the height of the French Revolution, the cathedral was badly damaged., as it was a symbol of French royalty. The mob destroyed and plundered many treasures. Were beheaded 28 statues of jewish kings. The revolutionaries declared Notre Dame the Temple of Reason. The cathedral was returned to the church and re-consecrated in 1802 year. AT 1804 Napoleon put on the crown of the emperor of France here, at 1811 year - the son of Napoleon was proclaimed king of Rome.
After that, Notre Dame Cathedral fell into disrepair.. The cathedral was even considered to be demolished.. It was not until the 1840s that its restoration began.. The writer Victor Hugo played a major role in this event. 1831 published his novel "Notre Dame Cathedral". In France and Europe, a movement has unfolded for the preservation and restoration of Gothic monuments.. As a result, the broken statues were replaced, a high spire was added to the temple (architect Viollet-le-Duc), a gallery of chimeras appeared on the roof.
obviously, that Notre Dame Cathedral will be restored now. After all, this is one of the world's attractions, symbol of paris and france. However, now it will actually be only a shadow of the former glory and greatness of the Old World., form without content. Notre Dame de Paris on fire is already a symbol of the agony of Western European civilization.
South side of the cathedral. Photo source: https://ru.wikipedia.org
Alexander Samsonov
