The light coming through the modern stained glass windows throws color onto the stone columns and walls. The color flows in and out of its intensity as the clouds pass over the sun outside. The color creates a sort of moving painting, using light as its medium. The color appears to be warm and soft, but running a hand over the stone, it is instead cold and illusory.
Notre Dame de Montmartre is the also known as Notre Dame de Beauté and is the Patronne des Artistes on the hill. It is in the church of Saint-Pierre on the hill of Montmartre, over shadowed by Sacre-Coeur, only steps from the square where the artists have their stands to sell their paintings and make drawings for the tourists.
Because of the fame of Sacre-Coeur, the cafes, and Place du Tertre with its artists, this small church goes unnoticed by many people going to see the monuments they think they should see.
As many churches were at the time, the original Merovingian church was built on the site of a Roman temple, this one happened to be a temple of the god Mercury, in the 7th century. Eglise Saint-Pierre is a small Romanesque/Early Gothic church that was then built between 1133 and 1147. The church and the grounds around it were later home to the Royal Benedictine Abbaye of Montmartre, when Montmartre was still just a village on a hill outside of Paris. Later, the church was severely damaged during The Revolution, and during The Reign of Terror (1793-94) its last Abess, Madame de Montmorency, was sent to the guillotine. Saint-Pierre is said to be the oldest church within the periphique of Paris.
705 – Déclaration à la préfecture de police. Ancien titre: AMI-CALE POUR L’AIDE AUX VIEUX ARTISTES (SOUS L’EGIDE DE NOTRE-DAME DE MONTMARTRE). Nouveau titre: AMI-CALE DES ARTISTES ET DES ECRIVAINS NOTRE-DAME DE MONTMARTRE-NOTRE-DAME DE BEAUTE. Nouvel objet : sous l’égide de Notre-Dame de Montmartre – Notre-Dame de Beauté, symbole de beauté, patronne de la Butte: Montmartre et des artistes du monde entier, reine de la Paix ; œuvrer pour le rayonnement et le développement du culte mariai de Notre-Dame de Montmartre – Notre-Dame de Beauté ; réuninissent, et leur procurer; aux heures difficiles surtout,’ entraide et réconfort moral. A cette fin, organiser, chaque année, dans le cadre montmartrois, entre autres manifestations artistiques ou littéraires, une journée des artistes et des écrivains. L’amicale a une vocation française, européenne et internationale. Sa devise, est: Amour, Beauté, Paix. Siège social: 2, rue du Mont-Cenis, 75018 Paris. Date de la déclaration : -28 juin 2002. — Declaration of name change to cover not only artists but writers, dated June 28,2002.
Eglise Saint-Pierre
2 rue Mont Cenis
Paris 75018
An interesting paper on monastic religion, The Reign of Terror, and The French Revolution.
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