Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais

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 The post Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais first appeared on Catholic Herald. The post Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais appeared first on Catholic Herald.

Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais
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 The post Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais first appeared on Catholic Herald. The post Hosanna: Palm Sunday dawns in Beauvais appeared first on Catholic Herald.