Burning Cathedral of Notre-Dame Facts, Photos and Video

- April 16, 2019

I am pretty sure you probably heard about the Cathedral of Notre Dame got on fire. It makes me sad. Yes, they can rebuild it and try to make it look like it did but it won't be the same.

The Cathedral was built between 1163 and 1345 by Pope Alexander the III and was completed in the 13th century. We lost 856 years of historical energy, labor and all the years of DNA/fingerprints. The towers may have seemed like they were twins but they were not. The towers were as high as 226 feet and it had 387 steps. It contained one of the oldest surviving wood-timber frames in Paris. Underneath the cathedral is another city. It is Gallo-Roman city known as Lutetia. Around 1710 pieces of the sculpted altar dedicated to Jupiter were discovered.

In 1431, Henry VI of England was made King of France inside the Notre-Dame.
During the French Revolution, 28 statues of biblical kings in the cathedral were removed by a mob. In 1977, the heads of 21 of these kings were rediscovered when they worked on the basement of the French Bank of Foreign Trade.

Joan of Arc who helped France in the battles against the English troops. She was captured by the Burundians', accused of heresy and burned at the stake. On July 7, 1456, she was declared innocent and martyr. In 1909, she was beatified in the cathedral by Pope Plus X.

in the late 1700s, the cathedral was falling apart due to weather, wear and tear and the French Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was crowned emperor there in 1804 worked hard at trying to restore the cathedral. Author Victor Hugo's book The Hunchback of Notre Dame helped with the major restoration overseen by architects Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.

Inside the cathedral, there are many artifacts including the Crown of Thoms.

I am glad no one got hurt. I thought for sure a terrorist caused this fire, but it is not. The fire was caused by the renovation of the cathedral. I just hope it was a faulty wire from the electric system or something like that because it would suck if you were the construction worker who started it. I truly believe it was an accident. I hope if it was a person who accidentally started it the company and news media won't give out the name(s) because I have a feeling the worker would get many death threats from emotional people.

According to the news, the family of French billionaire Francois Pinault has pledged $113 million to the reconstruction.