Germany has also pledged to lend a hand and is urging the rest of Europe to follow suit. The nation said it is ready and willing to provide academic experts and skilled technicians from its own restoration projects. Greece’s government has offered France assistance in restoring fire damage to Notre Dame cathedral, the AP reported Tuesday. French cosmetics company L’Oreal is also pledging to donate €100 million ($113 million) to support the reconstruction effort, and Bouygues construction group CEO Martin Bouygues said he and his brother Olivier would donate €10 million. France’s Capgemini SE said it would give €1 million and energy giant Total SA plans to donate €100 million. Another billionaire, Kering SA chairman and chief executive François-Henri Pinault, said his family will donate €100 million to the effort. Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, said his family and the luxury-goods company will donate €200 million to the reconstruction. To help, two of France’s richest businessmen have pledged a combined total of €300 million ($339.2 million) to help rebuild the cathedral, the Wall Street Journal reported. It was also reported that Notre-Dame’s famed Great Organ, one of the world’s oldest, did not burn but may have suffered some water damage. The status of the church’s many other stained-glass pieces also remains unknown.
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The full extent of the damage to each has not yet been assessed, however. The awe-inspiring South Rose window, created in 1260, has also seemingly survived, along with two similar windows.
Its rescue is reportedly being credited in part to the chaplain of the Paris fire brigade, Jean-Marc Fournier, who insisted on being allowed into the burning cathedral with firefighters to pull the relic from the flames.
Perhaps most significantly for the Catholic faithful is the news that the braided Crown of Thorns believed to have been worn by Jesus Christ during his cruxifixction has survived, according to NBC News. The Emmanuel bell has chimed in celebration of the end of the Second World War and in honor of those lost in the Sept. While the cathedral’s main bell, a 15 th-century piece called the Emmanuel bell, survived, it has yet to be officially confirmed whether the bells in the two towers were preserved.