Saving Notre Dame

 

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He is playing Ave Maria  to raise funds for the repair/rebuilding of the cathedral.

  French website on this.

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This film is typical of western films about that tragedy: emphasizes the cathedral is part of art and culture... no, no god here, no mary and especially not a symbol of Catholic belief....

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An older film about the cathedral is here:

 

this is a recent French film about the fire:<

and Netflix has a planned miniseries based on the story of the firefighters.

as best I can find, over 400 firefighters were involved, three were injured but none died fighting the fire.

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the UKGuardian notes that the French film showed the rescue of the relics, scoffing that these were merely medieval fakes so why are people busy risking their lives rescuing nonsense instead of figuring out who started the fire.

....except of course, those rescuing the relics are not exactly experts in forensic science of fires... as Bones would say: I'm a doctor mere Catholic believer, not a member of the CSI team.

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as for those medieval relics Here is a PBS segment about it:

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 Ironically, the attempt to dechristianize culture has resulted in more interest in the numinous/supernatural, (which can be religious or occultic) GetReligion discusses this phenomenum here.LINK

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A lot of Korean dramas include their folk beliefs in ghosts, nine tailed foxes, etc. and the idea that those in a coma might have their soul becoming a ghost like pesence or even enter into a historical figure is common... Ironically, our Objbwe patients had a similar belief about the souls of those in a coma . more HERE

And of course here in the Philippines, although the elite are into either Protestantism or New age practices, here in the country, we still have shrines of Mama Mary all over, pray the rosary at night, put flowers and candles on the graves, etc. because it is part of the cultural belief system...

there are a lot of ghost stories that are believed. No, the reason we go to a restaurant after attending a funeral is because we're hungry, not because we want to confuse the ghost and keep him from following us home.