Cathedral of St. Denis

Today a friend and I went to the Saint Denis Basilica Cathedral, the place where most of the kings of France have been buried. It was quite fascinating. There was a lot of history there. My friend was primarily interested in it because it is the final resting place of the remains of Marie-Antoinette, a tumultuous and rather interesting figure in French history. She and her husband, Louis XVI, were the final French royalty and were killed during the French Revolution.

The basilica itself is quite beautiful, especially when I have photo editing software that allows me to lighten images :-). All Cathedrals are rather dark, especially on rainy days like today. And on days like today, they are also COLD!

Before going into the whatever-its-called with all of its little burial statues and such, we went into a side building for bathrooms, a video that we didn't watch, and a super cool model of what the area probably looked like a while ago (13th century?).

Here is the statue of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette praying. I don't think either of them was particularly faithful to God during their time on earth, but one day they will bow their knees like all others. Someone did them the favor after their deaths of making them bow here on earth, too.

And, at my dad's request, here are some 3D images from the Cathedral:


hmm... I've realized that I somehow got the images backwards in that last 3D image, which is a bummer because it is super cool. I may post the corrected version later. For now, you can see it correctly by using the cross-eyed method rather than the normal method. Good practice!