How Notre Dame’s reopening will celebrate recovery from devastating blaze

The baptistery designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet in the restored Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral (Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via AP)

The reopening this weekend of Notre Dame is a succession of ceremonies to breathe life back into the famous cathedral and celebrate the recovery from a devastating fire in 2019.

High points will be the ritualised reopening of the cathedral’s massive doors, the reawakening of its thunderous organ and the celebration of the first Mass.