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

 Connected to the cult of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, as they used to say when I was young (though the expression has been modernized to Our Lady of Perpetual Help - see here  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Perpetual_Help ). The Lady in question is a cool gal who always gives you a hand, and is portrayed in a religious icon image which some say was painted by Saint Luke! The church is run by redemptorists, and is also the place to go in Toronto if you want to hear mass in German! I liked the solid lectern, and the modern holy water basin. And just opposite the church, there is a bar named "Sin and Redemption", which I thought was pretty good fun. Information in English