Notre-Dame’s bells have been called the ‘voice of the cathedral’.
Ahead of the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, eight of the cathedral’s church bells were renovated and blessed before their re-installation in the north tower.
In 1320, for example, the belltower of Bangor Cathedral in north Wales burnt down. As a result, its bishop requested a pardon from the yearly church tax. Bell blessings, also known as the “baptism of bells”, vary slightly between religious denominations and countries. But typically, they involve anointing the outside and inside of the bells with oil, then lighting incense underneath them.
A person or guild paying for a bell may pick a saint that reflects their career, life or private devotional practices. For example, a bell-ringer may dedicate a bell to Saint Dunstan, who is the patron saint of bell-ringers due to his early experimentation in forging bells at the turn of the 10th century.
Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, Jacobus de Voragine, described this in 1230 in his book of saint biographies, The Golden Legend:
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