Posted on 04/23/2019 1:21:58 AM PDT by blueplum
Three hives containing more than 180,000 bees in total were found intact on the cathedral’s roof despite the devastating blaze
Following the tragedy of Monday’s fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, news came on Friday of a miracle as sweet as honey.
The hundreds of thousands of bees that lived in hives inside Notre Dame’s roof are alive and well, according to the beekeeper, or apiculteur, that oversees them....
...Three hives that are home to an estimated 60,000 bees each – 180,000 bees in total – are located on a lower roof atop the cathedral’s first floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Bees are good with smoke. Very good. They go into "forest fire" mode, a mode used by all beekeepers for hive maintenance.
At the first whiffs of smoke, the bees drive deeper into their hives and gorge on honey. When the fire panic dies down, they re-deposit the honey. If the panic does not, and the fire really threatens with flames and heat, they "swarm" away looking for a new home.
Anything improbable has now become the definition of a miracle - instead of the supernatural.
L’Abeille de Notre Dame de Paris. C’est tres apropos.
If you pray for something righteous and it happens then it would be a good idea to attribute it to the Grace of God.
Neat! Thanks for the info!
Is supernatural secular-speak for miracle? Or vice versa?
Wrong kind of a miracle. The kind that was needed was the miraculous extinguishing of the fire. Didn’t happen. So God knows how to save bees but can’t put out a small fire?
“If you pray for something righteous and it happens then it would be a good idea to attribute it to the Grace of God.
Agree generally...
1. Unfortunately, I didn’t pray for the bees
2. Calling something answered prayer is a bit different than turning water into wine or raising the dead.
3. Of the bees were already dead, I didn’t see that...
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