The Virgin of the Pillar, miraculous masterpiece from the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris, returns to its cathedral
The statue lives its final hours in the heart of the building opposite the Louvre Museum. This Friday at the end of the day, the one who was housed there on a temporary basis will return, five and a half years after having left it, to her home where she has been admired by millions of visitors, venerated also by believers: the Notre Dame Cathedral. -Lady of Paris. “It is the very sign that we are approaching reopening,” says Mgr Ribadeau-Dumas, rector-archpriest of the restored monument, which will be inaugurated on December 7 and 8.