CHRISTIANITY AS ITS FOUNDER INTENDED

 

SAINT-BERNARD-LA-CHAPELLE IS ONE OF TWO CHURCHES IN FRANCE THAT ACTIVLY AIDS MIGRANTS.

 

Square Saint-Bernard, at the end of the street with the bookstore (rue Saint-Bruno)

A 19th-century painting stresses charity... 

For the 17th-century tradition please click. 

...and a recent work shows a multi-ethnic crowd surrounding a Black Jesus: 

 

The church became world-known on August 23, 1996, when the police broke down the door with axes and dragged 300 African migrants seeking regularization into the street, pregnant women included. 

La Croix / zoom

• In 2016, an exhibit commemorated the drama: "Some are without papers, others without humanity" says the panel below:

• An installation honored those migrants:

     Zsaza Mercury

By Ange et Dam, neighborhood sculptresses

Behind each figure, a memory: 

a piece of cloth, a spoon, a plastic sandal. 

In front of it an ex-voto, witness to its courage.

 

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