On the night of 24 August 410, an extraordinary event shook the world: the barbarian hordes of Alaric entered Rome… The death of an eternal city, the end of a civilisation, inspired the African bishop Augustine to write the twenty-two books of the “City of God”. This Latin Berber, who taught rhetoric before becoming a … Continued
For many, the church of St Pierre d’Aulnay in Saintonge is the most successful masterpiece of Romanesque art in France. It was one of the main stops on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. We look at it as the pilgrims did in days gone by. Their joys, their sorrows, the legends they told each … Continued
Like every year for the past eight centuries, huge crowds flock to Notre-Dame de Paris to hear the three Masses of the Nativity, and many are unable to find a seat in the nave. It is for them that television makes a discreet entrance into the choir to launch into space the images of this … Continued
In the heart of the Mediterranean, Mount Athos has for ten centuries sheltered monks and their secrets behind the thick walls of its monasteries. On its slopes cling the villages of monks who preferred the rustic life to that of the rule. Only a winch connects the world to this cliff of silence, whose entrance … Continued