DailyMail on Apr 16 2019 Locals met at the Saint Sulpice church in the 6th arrondissement before walking to the iconic cathedral where they sang hymns outside. The vigil comes as footage of people softly singing the classic hymn 'Ave Maria' and kneeling outside the church during the 12-hour blaze last night went viral, racking up nearly 15million views. Earlier today, Parisians were relieved to see the bell towers and great stained-glass rose window were still standing this morning despite fears the whole building would collapse. 'Yesterday we thought the whole cathedral would collapse. Yet this morning she is still standing, valiant, despite everything,' said Sister Marie Aimee, a nun who had hurried to a nearby church to pray as the flames spread. It is a sign of hope.'

This RTV Short uses happier images from Remnant Tours in Paris to pay homage to Our Lady's cathedral, which yesterday was engulfed in flames so completely that many thought she would surely burn to the ground. Evidently, Our Lady had other ideas. After Parisians watched her burn, rosaries in hand last evening, they awoke this morning to find the old Cathedral miraculously still standing, the Crown of Thornes rescued, the famous rose windows, pieta and organ saved. The Godless world had looked on in horror as one of Catholicism's most important symbols went up in smoke and, incredibly, they wept. Why? Could it be that the Catholic Faith, also in flames, is nevertheless still something modern men instinctively know the world cannot live without, even though so many have abandoned it? If Notre Dame in flames was a metaphor for the modern Church in flames, is the promise to rebuild not also a metaphor for what's to come, as the Novus Ordo breathes its last? After all, the 'butcher block' … More

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The beams were separated from the interior by the stone arches, and the beams were burning over them and on them, turning Notre-Dame into an over-sized grill. The interior of the cathedral remained mostly untouched. The domes caved in a few places, most notably under the spire, up here is a picture taken inside the cathedral, with the fire still raging on the top of it.

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