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Light and Shadow - Amiens Cathedral, Picardy, France

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Chapel of the Bath at the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. According to the legend of her life, this is where Saint Cecilia was killed: “Then Almachius was wroth, and commanded her to be led into her house, and there to be burnt in a burning bain, which [for] her seemed a place cold and well attempered. Then Almachius, hearing that, commanded that she should be beheaded in the same bath.”

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Baroque retable - Rouen Cathedral

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Our Lady of Pity - Amiens Cathedral

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Altarpiece of the Death and the Resurrection, 1541, by Pierre Jacques

Reims Cathedral, France

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The Sainte-Geneviève Chapel in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a splendid Neo-Gothic ensemble built in 1853 to honor the memory of the patron saint of Paris, St. Genevieve.  

Genevieve was buried in the early 6th century on the hill where this church is located.  It became a place of pilgrimage and her bones were venerated in a magnificent shrine for over a thousand years until the French Revolution. In 1793, during the ‘Reign of Terror,’ the shrine was melted down, the saint’s bones were burned in public, and the ashes were thrown into the Seine.

After the Revolution, other relics of St. Genevieve were gathered from several churches and are now kept here.  The fancy casket contains the remaining stones from her tomb in the crypt of the church.

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Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul - Bayeux Cathedral

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Flaming Urn - Amiens Cathedral

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