The painting, created by a monk from Mount Athos, depicts the Virgin Mary as "Queen of the Bees", to commemorate the miraculous survival of approximately 200,000 bees during the catastrophic 2019 Notre Dame fire
Gothic masterpiece reopens to world buffeted by war and economic uncertainty, five years after fire nearly destroyed it.
Behind the restoration of Paris’s greatest landmark—and the controversies that nearly consumed it.
The reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral will begin next Saturday with a speech by President Macron, followed by a ceremonial knocking on the cathedral’s doors by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich