“The cathedral struck those who entered it with its light and the elevated gaze it elicited. Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes is on fire. We Catholics, we need the Mass as spiritual food", pleads with Europe 1 Marc Billig, one of the organizers of this gathering. Pierres Sennès said the authorities had wanted to clear up any inconsistencies and that the questioning was a "normal procedure". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nantes-fire-idUSKBN24J07K Three fires were started at the site and an investigation is now under way. 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The fire at Notre Dame destroyed its main spire. One Twitter user who was on the scene tweeted: “Major fire in Nantes Cathedral. Jean-Charles Nowak, a clerk at the cathedral, told French newspaper Le Figaro the volunteer was "a man of duty" who had "suffered a lot in Rwanda" - a country he left several years ago. The prosecutor Pierre Sennes said in a statement that the volunteer had confessed to the examining magistrate on July 25 to lighting three fires in the cathedral, Le Figaro reported. He added: “The damage is concentrated on the large organ which seems to be completely destroyed. 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"A single Sunday without mass, and already I am lacking! "I find that shocking, it is an attitude which is not sufficiently united towards caregivers and vulnerable people, to whom we could transmit the virus", explains Robert Grenier, deacon in Nantes. But we are not deprived of the light and peace given to us by the Lord of this place. Eyewitnesses report on the big operation - are the police looking for the missing Iine, 18, from Yläne? 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Coronavirus: follow the evolution of the situation Tuesday, November 10, A position that divides within the local Church. About 500 Catholics gathered on Sunday in front of Nantes cathedral, a demonstration authorized by the prefecture and which aimed to obtain the return of mass, suspended because of the Covid-19. "I don't believe for a second that he could have set the cathedral on fire. However, developments in the arson investigation led the volunteer to be rearrested, indicted, and detained in pre-trial custody on July 25, according to the prosecutor. They intend to meet again next Sunday. Such inquiries are normally the remit of individual states but the attorney general says this is not a firm rule. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Republicans back Trump as he refuses to concede, Russia pins hopes on own vaccines and huge hospitals, 'We are first-hand witnesses of this devastation', The women changing the face of US politics, 'He held me under hot water during lockdown.' French fire fighters are thought to have managed to extinguish the flames. Billows of smoke are rising from the Cathedral after a large fire engulfed the nave of the building. French TV images showed smoke coming out of the 15th century Cathedral. “The platform on which it is located is very unstable and threatens to collapse.”. A major fire which broke out in the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, blowing out stained glass windows and destroying the grand organ in the 15th-century building, has been contained. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}A volunteer detained for questioning over a fire at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes has been released without charge. On that occasion fire fighters were able to bring the flames under control but not before much of the building’s timber frame was damaged. French Prime Minister Jean Castex praised their "professionalism, courage and self-control". How can we not think of our future bishop, who cannot be installed in his cathedral?” Fr. According to Pierre Sennes, the public prosecutor of Nantes, “three different fires were observed at the level of the great organ, to the right and to the left of the nave”.
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