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\u201cCathedrals are places of intersection of both the world of spirituality… it\u2019s a meeting of culture and faith in really fascinating ways,\u201d said the Rev. Dorian Del Priore, Canon for Mission & Evangelism at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.<\/p>\n
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The sight of the medieval cathedral\u00a0Notre-Dame de Paris\u00a0in flames was nothing less of \u201cgut wrenching and heartbreaking\u201d for the Rev. Dorian Del Priore of Columbia. He along with millions across the world grieved after flames engulfed the 856-year-old cathedral.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is the most visited site in Paris. It has reverberations, culture and art and music throughout the world,\u201d Del Priore,\u00a0Canon for Mission & Evangelism at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia said Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to not be touched. Even people who might not have stepped into a church in years, something like that, they feel that at a guttural and instinctual level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, the cathedral caught fire, causing the spire to collapse onto the roof. Firefighters were able to save multiple relics including the crown of thorns believed to have been worn by Christ\u00a0and the linen Tunic of St Louis. Statues were removed prior to the fire during renovations. Other sections of the architecture, such as the buttresses and famous rose stained glass windows appeared to have been spared.<\/span><\/p>\n He has never visited Notre Dame, but he has been part of communities that have suffered similar losses.<\/span><\/p>\n In October 2010, Virginia Theological Seminary, where he studied, suffered the loss of their chapel in a fire. It was the most historic chapel in Alexander, Virginia. Del Priore witnessed both the grief and the hope of a community as it wrestled with the tragic loss of the chapel.\u00a0For him, cathedrals are places where the religious world of spirituality and the secular world intersect.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd Notre Dame is the epitome of that. To see it in flames is just heart wrenching and sad. Even more so you think of the layers of history, all of the hands that have gone into that place. The walls are just steeped and dripped with people\u2019s prayers,\u201d Del Priore said.<\/span><\/p>\n Notre-Dame de Paris was constructed from 1163 to 1345 in Paris, France. Consecrated to the Virgin Mary, it is one of the most recognized symbols of the the French nation. It is one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and has undergone numerous modifications due to riots and wars dating back to 1548. The cathedral houses valued relics of the Catholic faith including the Crown of Thorns, believed to be worn by Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe first thing I thought about was the relics. If those burn, then what\u2019s going to happen?\u201d Ashley Mason, a member of Carolina Catholics, a Catholic worship group at USC, said. \u201cEspecially because it\u2019s Holy Week for us, it\u2019s a very sacred time because we\u2019re preparing for his death and resurrection. And the relics are something that is seen of great value or importance to our faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Holy Week in Christianity is the week before Easter and the last week of Lent. The week is a time of devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ. For Del Priore, the Notre Dame fire happening during Holy Week only amplifies \u201cthe richness of that story.\u201d The\u00a0sense of grief and loss and damage of Notre Dame gives a similar narrative to the Passion of Christ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt’s a journey; how is God going to work through this loss? How is God going to redeem this loss, this suffering,\u201d Del Priore said. \u201cAnd ultimately that’s the story of the cross too, is that God and Christ took death and made it powerless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Most of the items and relics were moved to the Louvre, Paris\u2019 renowned art museum, and \u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron vowed the cathedral will be restored and completed within five years. This brings hope back to the Roman Catholic community, especially people like Santiago Gunther, who want the cathedral to reopen to be the house of prayers it once was.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s such a large congregation. Just a rich place of faith and history,\u201d Gunther said. \u201cIt\u2019s just saddening to see that get burned down after all of this time and effort put into building that which took about 100 years to do so. I think we should just respect it and rebuild it to what it use to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 1″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NDFaithP2_Web.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on Sumter Street has multiple architectural features similar to ones in the Notre Dame, including the two towers at the front of the church and a rose stained glass window.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 2″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NDFaithP4_Web.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Nearly 500 firefighters worked to contain the massive fire that devastated large parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris including the iconic spire. Credit: AP Photo\/ Thilbault Camus<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 3″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NDFaithP3_Web.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 3″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Most cathedrals have a dome and a crossing, an architectural element that allows access to the front of the cathedral, which purposely resemebles the cross of Christ. The crossing of the Notre Dame was a major devastated area.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 4″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NDFaithG1_TG_Web.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” prev_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Members of the Catholic and other religious communities recollect after cathedral fire during Holy Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":20892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[67,62,97],"tags":[96,787,785,784,786,788,630,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20838"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20922,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838\/revisions\/20922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}