Perspective: Why you don’t need to be French or Catholic to mourn the Notre Dame fire
Flames and smoke rose from the blaze at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday. By Kisha G. Tracy Kisha G. Tracy is associate professor of English studies at Fitchburg State University, specializing in medieval and premodern literature and culture. April 17 at 6:00 AM “Notre-Dame de Paris is burning."
The awareness of Notre Dame’s significance is not, of course, the sole province of academics. It is shared with the approximately 12 million people who visit the cathedral every year, all of whom have memories of the monument, captured in photos with friends and family. Paradoxically, what creates the idea of Notre Dame and other similar spaces as sites of shared cultural heritage is precisely the vast array of meanings they hold for so many.
Still others find the significance of Notre Dame not in its structure but in what it contains. Many of its relics, including the famous Crown of Thorns, have been saved as firefighters and others formed a human chain into the burning skeleton of the cathedral. Objects such as these that have been venerated across time, regardless of religion or system of belief, become imbued with significance, even for those who do not share the same creed.
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