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Chartres Cathedral: Sooty-Dark or Sparkling White, It’s Still Saving Souls
Aletelia ^
| October 24, 2015
| WILLIAM NEWTON
Posted on 10/24/2015 2:00:54 PM PDT by NYer
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William Newton is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the University of Notre Dame Law School, and Sothebys Institute of Art in London. Learn more at wbdnewton.com and follow him on Twitter at wbdnewton. This article appeared on Mr. Newton’s Blog of the Courtier and is reprinted here with permission.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:00:54 PM PDT
by
NYer
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:01:22 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
How long before the Mohammedan “immigrants” blow it up?
To: All
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:08:06 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
Alas, 7 years in Germany and I never made it to Chartres.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:09:48 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: NYer
How can cleaning up and restoring such a beautiful and magnificent building cause such a fuss....?
Cleanliness is next to Godliness is the saying....
Clean it up and restore it before the it’s turned into a stable by the invading Muslim hordes...
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:11:22 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: NYer
I was an Atheist when I visited the Chartres Cathedral in July 1993 and became a Christian less than two years later. I was really impressed with the Cathedral, it was the first time I actually felt reverence for anything other than my own pursuit of pleasure. That little spark kept growing until I was finally engulfed.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:15:53 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Abortion is murder)
To: NYer
Would be interesting to see the original architectural drawings. I wonder if they exist?
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:16:45 PM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The rehabilitation shall finish just in time to turn it into a mosque....
Of course, a lot of the restoration shall have to be reversed, to allow for upgrades. Consider the fate of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (or is it Instanbul?) Great museum, I hear.
See what the Islamic religion did for the Temple of the Mount in Jerusalem.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
To: HerrBlucher
What a wonderful story.Thank you!
To: georgia peach
I would love to hear more....
To: Popman
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness is the saying....’
That is a Protestant saying.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:28:52 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(Genius at Large)
To: Fai Mao
——Cleanliness is next to Godliness is the saying....——
——That is a Protestant saying.——
So Catholics prefer to be dirty...?
Got to admit that your remark is just about dumbest comment ever posted...
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:43:44 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: HerrBlucher; GreyFriar
I was an Atheist when I visited the Chartres Cathedral in July 1993 and became a Christian less than two years later. I was really impressed with the Cathedral, it was the first time I actually felt reverence for anything other than my own pursuit of pleasure. That little spark kept growing until I was finally engulfed. What an amazing testimony!! I visited the cathedral in 1985. Still recall seeing the steeples rising in the distance as we drove along the A11 highway. Amazing!
Check out Rick Steve's video posted above in comment #4. He explains how the unique architectural design allowed for larger stained glass windows which were used to instruct people in the faith. I also posted a key to the windows in post #1.
Welcome home!
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:48:44 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: alloysteel
With Israel now arming up in response to the knife incidents, could there be a major “house cleaning” in the making?
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:48:47 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Popman; Fai Mao
Got to admit that your remark is just about dumbest comment ever posted... Some attribute the remark to John Wesley, so I think that's why Fai Mao said it was a Protestant saying.
However, some attribute it instead to a proverb used by second century rabbi Phinehas ben Yair, so I think the origin is up in the air.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:52:32 PM PDT
by
BlessedBeGod
(To restore all things in Christ. -- Pope St. Pius X /// Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016!)
To: Fai Mao; Popman; NYer
‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’ is a pseudo-scriptural reference used by parents to get their children to take bathes. I don’t think there is any Protestantism or Catholicism about it.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:56:05 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Yardstick
Would be interesting to see the original architectural drawings. I wonder if they exist?
Chartres Cathedral - Wikipedia
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:57:43 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: BlessedBeGod
H’mmm 2nd Century Jewish proverb? Why not. See also my post # 17.
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posted on
10/24/2015 2:57:48 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: NYer
I doubt if the plans still exist. No doubt there were initial plans of some type, but with medieval churches being built over a couple of hundred years, if on a ‘rush’ schedule, there were probably many changes and lost copies.
And I’m sure Fr. Esser made a comment about that during our Art History mandatory classes or in the medieval history class from Fr. Gerlach, but that was nearly 50 years ago and my memory banks are failing.
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posted on
10/24/2015 3:01:21 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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