A little less of St Denis
Lost in the great fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
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![St Denis' statue in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. He was beheaded around 250 AD - Notre-Dame was built on the site of his church 900 years later. A relic of St Denis, placed in the weather vane atop the cathedral's spire in the 1830s was lost in the devastating fire of 15th April 2019. [Photo by Thesupermat-CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21763309]](https://www.hatley.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/St-Denis-statue-Cathédrale-Notre-Dame-Photo-by-Thesupermat-de-la-Vierge-PA00086250-003-Grid-pic-570-x-290-px-deep.jpg)
Saint Denis was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint – martyred for his faith by decapitation, thus now portrayed carrying his head in his...
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