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(Spoiler'd for pretty blasphemous early '80s humour)
That said, more recent things with more provenance like St Louis' tunic, I'm very glad they were saved. Wasn't the crown of thorns his as well, rather than Jesus'?
(What a totp. Oh well!)
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It's probably just the one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce
I love apocryphal stories obviously written in the middle ages with anachronistic references like "a son who was a druggist".
They did what??
At least the pictures that often accompany the claim are definitely showing something other than oak.
There are lots of old growth forests with sufficient resources to do this. I can't imagine the solution would be "use new technologies" rather than sourcing a tree from outside of France because of that specific issue.
For other reasons, sure. But that's silly.
Definitely made it way too far into this thinking we were still talking about Jesus’ foreskin.
it's in a jar labeled 'aftskin' isn't it?
As for oak trees, there should be oak trees somewhere that could serve. I do know that 15 years ago the Swedish ministry of forestry reported that oaks planted in the late 18th century (on the orders of Gustav III to ensure the supply of timber for ship building) were ready for harvesting, but they were still arguing over what historical project could possibly justify cutting down trees from a prime 250-year-old oak forest.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I thought this was very cool
I bet they could, but it probably would not be historically accurate either.
I seem to recall thinking Notre Dame was much more wooden than I anticipated when I visited 20 years ago, but it's possible my memory is flawed.
You rang?
Its already gonna not be ancient beams that have stood for hundreds of years anyway so why not just make it out of steel or whatever
Like I don't know if there is a good engineering reason why it can't be done but I can't think of any aesthetic reason it couldn't be done
huh
The tweet appears to have been deleted. What was it?
oh, it was Macron wanting to rebuild notre dame in 5 years:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/french-president-macron-vows-to-rebuild-notre-dame-cathedral-within-five-years/ar-BBW0c3S?ocid=st
The existing plans already exist
at that point it is almost indistinguishable in terms of monetary value
I can appreciate the urgency, but at the same time this seems to be a thing that should be allowed to take as long as it takes to be done properly.
huh I actually kind of like the fake more but it's probably worth considerably less
Work on historic sites like that is extremely slow. They probably need a year or more just to clean up and access the damage.
And then Gothic style handmade masonry. If more elaborate parts have to be replaced, a single piece can take months or years.
If they completely close it off, it'll be done a LOT faster.