Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars - a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. GETTY IMAGES It took a fire in peacetime to finally stop Notre Dame from celebrating Christmas Mass for the first time in more than two centuries. MICHEL EULER/AP Notre Dame cathedral choir's director Henri Chalet directs the Notre Dame choir during a rehearsal at the Saint Sulpice church in Paris. THIBAULT CAMUS/AP Notre Dame cathedral rector Patrick Chauvet talks to the Associated Press. AP The Notre Dame Cathedral has been newly illuminated in November for the first time since the April fire in 2019.

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