St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardening

September 3, 2016

Tonight, many of us on the Historic Organ Study Tour attended the special St. Fiacre mass at the Cathedral Notre Dame de l’Annonciation in Nancy, France, and it was a spectacle the likes of which I’ve never seen! We had visited the Cathedral a couple of days ago and they were just starting to… Read More St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardening

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They’d NEVER allow this in the U.S.!

September 1, 2016

That’s what I heard someone from our tour say as we were climbing yet another spiral stairway up to the organ loft. “OSHA would never allow these dangerous steps!” Apart from our first church visit today, someone counted 67 steps at the Église Saint Sébastien and over 70 steps at the Cathedral Notre Dame de… Read More They’d NEVER allow this in the U.S.!

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St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardening

They’d NEVER allow this in the U.S.!