Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais

Catholic Herald

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Before the French Revolution, Beauvais, about an hour north of Paris on the train, was one of the “villes sonnantes” – the “ringing towns” – whose belfries regulated the daily rhythm of morn and eve, life and death, and everything in between. The best calculations suggest that there were 135 bells in 16th-century Beauvais, between

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