Notre Dame Tragedy
University of notre dame president rev.
Notre dame tragedy. To view the fire this way would be a very french and very. Notre dame cathedral in paris went up in flames today. But it is also a rare opportunity as fortunate as it is sickening to unite the nation. Jenkins c s c joined with the campus community in mourning the passing of two first year students who died this morning after being struck by an automobile at ironwood road and bulla road about a mile east of the campus.
What it tells us about our own mortality about the unpredictability of the future and about the fragility of even our greatest creations. Nothing lasts forever and that s what hurts the most about the near loss of notre dame cathedral. Built between 1160 and 1260 notre dame survived riots in the 16th century the upheavals of the french revolution in the 18th damage from bombing in world war i and from bullets in world war ii. But a paris fire official says the main structure of the cathedral has been saved and.
The world watched in horror yesterday as a fire ripped through notre dame cathedral gutting its interior and sending its iconic spire crashing to the ground. In a press release the. Notre dame caught us all off guard and suddenly it was as if the elites and the people supposedly sworn enemies throughout the modern world if we must believe the current populist narrative. But the blaze is not the only tragedy.
The spire of this historic building has collapsed. Two university of notre dame students were killed over the weekend after being struck by a vehicle just a mile away from their indiana campus according to officials.