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Subject: Re: [OM] A church that burned down 20 yrs ago
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:14:31 +0100
Le 1 févr. 13 à 11:55, stephan van den zegel a écrit :

> spanish bombs?
>
> "churches are highly inflammable" so I was told by an old spanish
> militant... who met Capa, Taro... and friends
>


>
> more seriously, the tower (how do you say "clocher" in english)

steeple,
spire
bell tower
etc.

> of the
> church in my village was hit by lightning and burned, so they had to  
> build a
> new one... but because it was heritage listed it had to match  
> exactly with
> the original. But it was a well know exemple of "Cron" clocher...

rings a bell for a leica user, does it not? ...

> meaning
> that with the time all the structure went turning (spiral)... so  
> they had to
> rebuild it "cron"... it took ten years and a international master  
> carpenter
> to do it. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand-Marchin_clocher.jpg
>

Indeed

Amitiés Philippe
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> From: Andrew Fildes
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OM] A church that burned down 20 yrs ago
>
> Act of God?!

:-)




>
> Andrew Fildes
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>
>
> On 01/02/2013, at 6:33 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>
>> Almost 20 years ago, Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Fort Wayne,  
>> Indiana,
>> was struck by lightning and burned down. Only the brick walls of the
>> church
>> were left standing.
>
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