Weathervane Wednesday - Good news from the Notre Dame de Paris Rooster Saved from Disaster

Best tweet I've seen today!

Although the disastrous fire at the Notre Dame de Paris was horrific and difficult to watch on TV and video, small miracles are arising from its ashes.  For me, the story about the rooster weathervane being recovered fills me with joy!

This rooster is not a true weathervane pointing to wind direction.  Roosters are a traditional symbol for church weathervanes and steeple spires due to a medieval edict from a Pope in Rome.  This pope directed it as a Christian symbol to be placed on churches, based on the bible story of St. Peter’s denial of Christ three times before the cock crowed at dawn.   In 1935, the archbishop of Parish placed it on the 300 foot spire, and since 1935 it has contained holy relics to protect the city.  These relics include those from St. Denis, St. Genevieve, and a thorn from the Crown of Thorns.  It was called a “spiritual lightning rod”.

These relics were thought to be lost, but were recovered early on Tuesday morning, April 16^th, giving hope to the faithful that much more would be recovered. 

The Notre Dame de Paris rooster (from the Old Farmer's Almanac website:
https://www.almanac.com/extra/folklore-cocks-cockcrows-and-weathercocks )

From ABC Spanish news:

https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-milagro-notre-dame-encuentran-gallo-aguja-catedral-guardaba-tres-reliquias-201904162126_noticia.html  

New York Post:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/16/spiritual-lightning-rod-atop-iconic-notre-dame-spire-found-in-rubble/  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday -  Good news about the Notre Dame de Paris Rooster Saved From Disaster", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 16, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/04/weathervane-wednesday-good-news-from.html: accessed [access date]).