200 Churches in Paris and elsewhere

  This is a church you see from the outside as you ride past on the tram, and I have been wanting to visit it ever since the first time I saw it, which must have been when that new tramway opened just over ten years ago. It is a 1950s church and the brickwork is very pretty. When I finally decided to go visit it, it was night time, so you don’t get the full effect. Inside, the stations of the cross in metal relief were interesting, there was a crib, too. Everything seems to happen in Portuguese, and when I visited on a Saturday evening, I could hear rosaries being declaimed in portuguese. It seems it is the church of the Portuguese community of the Paris area.   Full story of that Fatima gal here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima And in Portuguese here: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa_Senhora_de_F%C3%A1tima And in Kiswahili here  https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikira_Maria_wa_Fatima

 Information in English Saint-Germain_l%27Auxerrois Information in French  Eglise_Saint-Germain-l%27Auxerrois_de_Paris  Information in Spanish  Iglesia_de_Saint-Germain-l%27Auxerrois_de_Par%C3%ADs  Information  in Chinese   https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Just across the road from the Louvre museum, I bet this church is often missed. But it is well worth a visit. The "Father of French journalism" is buried here : he died in 1653, and there is still a  literary award named after him.  ( see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophraste_Renaudot  ) There is also a very pretty "VIP pew" in here, and a lovely wall collection box. The first church on the site was destroyed by the Vikings in the 9th century. The present one almost got demolished in the 19th century renovation of  Paris. Apparently, the bells of this church were used to call people to attack the protestants on the night of the terrible Saint Barthelemew massacre in 1...