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Notre-Dame Gets Back St Thomas Statue Adorning Spire Base
- A statue of Saint Thomas was returned to Notre-Dame in Paris, marking the recovery of all 16 statues that adorned the spire before the 2019 fire.
- The statue, weighing 100 kilograms and standing three metres tall, was unharmed as it was removed for restoration shortly before the fire.
- The statues represent 12 apostles and four evangelists, designed by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc and sculpted by Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume in 1857.
- The cause of the 2019 fire remains unknown, though an investigation suggested it may have been due to an accident like an electrical fault.
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Notre-Dame gets back St Thomas statue adorning spire base
A statue of the apostle Saint Thomas was on Thursday returned to Notre-Dame in Paris, which has now recovered all 16 statues that adorned the base of its spire before a 2019 devasting fire.
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The statue of Saint-Thomas, which had not been damaged in the 2019 fire, was resettled on Thursday. All statues will be fully visible at the end of August, after dismantling the scaffolding of the arrow.
The last of the sixteen statues adorning the base of the arrow of Notre-Dame de Paris, removed to be restored a few days before the fire that ravaged the building in 2019, was resettled on Thursday,...
The last statue of the arrow is resettled today. True miraculous, it had been moved for restoration four days before the fire. Thus it escaped the flames of Our Lady. Michel Izard tells this moving moment. (Topics of society).
The last of the 16 statues that decorated the base of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, was re-installed on Thursday (24), not more than six years after the fire in 2019, announced the public body responsible for the restoration and preservation of the temple. The figure of São Tomé was the last of the statues that were missing to be re-installed, after all were removed for its restoration days before the fire destroyed the building on April 1…
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