In Memory of the Murdered Churches.....

Notre Dame is a sublimation of the world, the most vivid connection of the Middle Ages with our days, its spire is the core of France, its culture and history. Before us is not just a wounded monument - before us is the wounded flesh of France, its people....
There is a bitter symbolism in the fact that it happened when Europeans were flooded with migrants, when the great culture embodied in the cathedrals of France was sold to the crowds and hordes of tourists when the cathedral was better and more majestic than those who enter it today....
We'll have to re-read Proust “In Memory of the Murdered Churches” - a requiem for the temples that died and suffered in the First World War. It would seem that it was a long time ago. But today Dies Irae. And from today there is no more relevant books. For in the flames of the cathedral we see the future of Europe.  What a pity......