{"id":403245,"date":"2019-04-17T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hero-priest-entered-burning-notre-dame\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:28:13","slug":"hero-priest-entered-burning-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hero-priest-entered-burning-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Priest Entered Burning Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A French priest who helped the wounded in the Bataclan terror attack on Paris\u00a0and who survived an ambush in\u00a0Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0also emerged as a hero of the Notre Dame fire today.<\/p>\n

Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade,\u00a0rushed straight for the relics housed in the cathedral to rescue the Blessed Sacrament and the Crown of Thorns relics from the blazing building on Monday night.<\/p>\n

It was feared that both religious artefacts would be lost as flames engulfed the medieval building, but Father Fournier made sure they were taken to safety.<\/p>\n

Four years ago he also comforted the wounded after the worst terrorist attack on Paris this century when 89 people were massacred at the\u00a0Eagles of Death Metal concert in 2015.<\/p>\n

During his time as an army chaplain, Father\u00a0Fournier, survived an ambush in which 10 soldiers were killed.\u00a0\u00a0
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Etienne Loraillere, an editor for\u00a0France<\/a>\u2018s KTO Catholic television network, said Father Fournier \u2018went with the firefighters into Notre Dame Cathedral to save the Crown of Thorns and the Blessed Sacrament\u2019.<\/p>\n

This was confirmed by an emergency services source who said: \u2018Father Fournier is an absolute hero.<\/p>\n

\u2018He showed no fear at all as he made straight for the relics inside the Cathedral, and made sure they were saved. He deals with life and death every day, and shows no fear.\u2019<\/p>\n

The blaze erupted in the medieval UNESCO world heritage landmark in the French capital on Monday, sending its spire and roof crashing to the ground as flames and clouds of smoke billowed into the sky.<\/p>\n

One of the cathedral\u2019s most precious objects, the Crown of Thorns is purported to have been worn by Jesus Christ on the cross when he was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A French priest who helped the wounded in the Bataclan terror attack on Paris\u00a0and who survived an ambush in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0also emerged as a hero of the Notre Dame fire today. Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade,\u00a0rushed straight for the relics housed in the cathedral to rescue the Blessed Sacrament and the Crown of Thorns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}