The church, built of Fall River granite to resemble its namesake in Paris, ... Notre Dame de Lourdes held its Mass in French. In November 1884 after its French pastor retired, ...

In May 1982, Fall River lost its own iconic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes. "They said hurry, there's a fire in the attic!" said Masse, who was church sexton there for 33 years.

As Notre Dame cathedral in Paris recovers from a devastating fire , a Massachusetts city is remembering the eerily similar blaze that consumed their historic Notre Dame church nearly 40 years ago.

FALL RIVER — Early in the afternoon of May 11, 1982, Fall River’s Flint neighborhood lost its own Notre Dame. A worker doing repairs atop the Notre Dame de Lourdes Church said he smelled smoke.

Guests attend an inaugural Mass, with the consecration of the high altar, at the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, five-and-a-half years after a fire ravaged the Gothic masterpiece, as part of ...

This combination of pictures created on November 29, 2024 shows (top) Firefighters douse flames billowing from the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019 and (bottom) Notre-Dame ...

Notre Dame Church in Springvale will celebrate its final Mass on Saturday, Feb. 11, and from there the members of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish – myself among them – will turn their focus to ...

Notre-Dame de Paris felt to me almost like a giant hospital. When I attended Mass, there were nearly 2,000 people who came, as the celebrant put it, because they were moved with a desire to repent.

Several key events will lead to the grand reopening of the iconic Notre-Dame de Paris in December, more than five years after a fire destroyed a significant portion of the structure.. With just 23 ...

FALL RIVER — The former Notre Dame de Lourdes School near Lafayette Park will undergo redevelopment with plans to convert the historic building into a 48-unit market-rate apartment complex.

Fall River lost its own Notre Dame nearly forty years ago. NBC 10 News was there as an inferno consumed the historic Notre Dame de Lourdes Church on Eastern Avenue on May 11, 1982. Strong winds ...

In this May 11,1982 photo, the Notre Dame de Lourdes Church burns in Fall River, Mass. The cathedral was completed in 1891 and was in the midst of a $1 million renovation when the fire occurred.