(Federica Tourn. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR).
For the rector of the world’s second largest church after St. Peter’s Basilica — the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil — May 11 will be a day of celebrating the inauguration of the southern facade’s mosaics, all created by Father Marko Rupnik.
(by Caroline de Sury. Our Sunday Visitor).-
PARIS (OSV News) — Philippe Villeneuve, Notre Dame Cathedral‘s chief architect, learned about the 2019 fire 300 miles from Paris and rushed to the capital to help firefighters save the iconic monument.
For France’s top architect of historical sites, the evening of April 15, 2019, was especially dark as Notre Dame Cathedral was already his passion when he was a little boy. Since the inferno, he has worked tirelessly to finalize major parts of renovations by Dec. 8 when the cathedral is reopened.