Liturgical vestments from Castelbajac, silver dishes lined with gold… The dazzling new adornment of Notre-Dame is revealed
Liturgical tableware in gold and silver, chasubles stained with luminous colors, reliquary chase in gilded glass… The Archbishopric of Paris presented the latest creations of objects, clothing and furniture which will take place in Notre-Dame when it reopens.
“When on June 30, 1990 I lay down on the floor of Paris Cathedral during my ordination as a priest, I did not imagine that one day it would suffer a serious fire, then a magnificent restoration and even less that I would one day become its rector”, recalls with humor Mgr Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector archpriest of Notre-Dame, as he presents the artists and craftsmen who worked on liturgical furniture and objects of worship, with a view to the reopening of the cathedral, on December 8.
At his side, Guillaume Bardet recalls his work on the baptistery, the altar, the tabernacle, the ambo and the cathedra, which he made in chiseled bronze.
Compared to the initial project, “the altar,” he explains, “has grown in size and now measures 2.40 meters long.” Above all, he presents for the first time the sumptuous liturgical tableware in silver lined with gold that he also designed: ewer, cruets, chalice, paten, ciborium, monstrance and censer…
