“We were all thinking of Notre Dame today.” Easter Mass at Saint-Eustache in Paris was dedicated to the firefighters who saved Notre Dame.
PARIS—While Paris’s most famous cathedral sat empty and sealed off, some 2,000 worshipers packed into a nearby church on Sunday to celebrate what should have been Notre Dame’s Easter Mass.
Led by the Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit, worshipers flocked to the 17th-century Church of Saint-Eustache, barely a mile from the closed off site of Notre Dame, for the holiest day on the Catholic calendar. Archbishop Aupetit dedicated the service to the firefighters of Paris who put out the blaze, rescued precious relics, and appeared...
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