“There is still life here,” Archbishop Michel Aupetit said after he and a handful of priests entered the church wearing white hard hats for Good Friday prayers.
“In this Holy Week, the entire world has been stunned by a pandemic that is spreading death and paralyzing us,” Aupetit said.
Star French classical violinist Renaud Capucon — wearing a plastic suit and boots to protect against the toxic lead from the molten roof that still contaminates the site — then played Bach sonatas.
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