With any luck, the recent grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, will be looked back upon as the dawn of the Western revival.
In early December, leaders from around the world attended the first Mass in the famous gothic church in five years, where they heard performances of pieces by late anti-communist Catholic Polish composer Henryk Górecki and baroque composer Handel, the creator of Messiah. The famed church, which began construction in the 12th century but wasn’t opened until the mid-13th, had been nearly completely rebuilt in only five years. Its classic flying buttresses and apses were revived by 2,000 workers at the cost of nearly a billion dollars, which was procured from
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