"The happiest place on earth"

Get email updates of new posts:        (Delivered by FeedBurner)

Monday, October 17, 2011

France/Spain 2011 - Day 6, Part 2 - Paris: Church of St Etienne du Mont

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers." - Edward Shepherd Mead

***

France/Spain 2011
Day 6 - 22nd March - Paris: Church of St Etienne du Mont
(Part 2)

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Plaque on the tombs of, among others, Clovis, St Genevieve (patron saint of Paris - the Parisians are very grateful to her, since I only just learned that she was their patron saint)

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Altar

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Chapel of St Genevieve

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Tomb. Her relics were here till 1793.

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Rood Screen from the back

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
On the history of the Church

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
People associated with the church

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
About the architecture of the place: the jubé (rood screen) is the only one left in Paris (that was the main reason I visited the church, in fact - I couldn't remember having seen one before)

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Quite nice stained glass. Pity it was behind glass.
The stained glass was in where I thought the cloisters were supposed to be

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Celebrating Pope Pius VII's visit in 1805

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Chapel of the Virgin, behind the altar

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Chapel of the Virgin side

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
More stained glass

Another large draw was the tomb of Blaise Pascal:

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Epitaph in Latin

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Chapel of the Sacred Heart plaque

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Chapel: The Last Supper, Champigneulle, 1889

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
"The body of Blaise Pascal, who died on 19 August 1662 in this parish of St Etienne du Mont, is inhumed near this pillar. RIP"
This was at the Chapel of the Virgin. For some reason it didn't say exactly where he was buried. Apparently it was "behind the main altar, near to, and directly before the pillar on the left hand, entering the Chapel of the Virgin".

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Altar from the rear, and nave

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Another chapel

Interestingly, there were parts of the church each dedicated to one saint, and each had a slot for you to donate in the Saint's name. Presumably there was a KPI for each saint. I didn't want to prejudice the count, so I donated into the general church upkeep hole (i.e. with no saint's name)

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Tea lights
I decided to light one for Pascal but very intelligently turned an unlit votive candle upside down, and it fell in. I figured out that I should put an existing candle to a new one, instead ofthe reverse.

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Guestbook message I left: "Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point" ("The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not of")
A lot of people use this to describe love or something similar, but really the original quote was about religion: "Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point. On le sent en mille choses. C'est le cœur qui sent Dieu, et non la raison. Voilà ce que c'est que la foi parfaite, Dieu sensible au cœur." ("The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not of. We feel this in a thousand things. It is the heart which senses God, and not reason. There you have it - that which is perfect faith, God sensed in the heart")
blog comments powered by Disqus
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Latest posts (which you might not see on this page)

powered by Blogger | WordPress by Newwpthemes