a mason’s view
invoke the presence and aid of God. When people gather, in community, as Sylvester did in his day, as Fulbert in his, as the stone carvers and glass makers in theirs, and in their hour of need, they confess that their final trust is in God. So it is in every church, in every synagogue, in every mosque and every house of worship. So it is in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres. n
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The author on a winding staircase in Chartres Cathedral
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