Paris . lenouveau Melchisedech —for his recovery from sickness byS. Germain, another far more rich and beautiful edificearose by the side of the first church, and was destined tobecome ecclesia parisiaca, the cathedral of Paris. Childebertendowed it with three estates—at Chelles-en-Brie, at LaCelle near Montereau, and at La Celle near Frejus, which No wonder that multitudes died of the 7nal des ardents. The cure prescribedwas wine and holy water mingled with scrapings from a stone of the Holy Sepulchre,and in which relics of the saints had been dipped. See Historiens tieFrance^ xi. NOTRE DAME
Paris . lenouveau Melchisedech —for his recovery from sickness byS. Germain, another far more rich and beautiful edificearose by the side of the first church, and was destined tobecome ecclesia parisiaca, the cathedral of Paris. Childebertendowed it with three estates—at Chelles-en-Brie, at LaCelle near Montereau, and at La Celle near Frejus, which No wonder that multitudes died of the 7nal des ardents. The cure prescribedwas wine and holy water mingled with scrapings from a stone of the Holy Sepulchre,and in which relics of the saints had been dipped. See Historiens tieFrance^ xi. NOTRE DAME 295 last supplied the oil for its sacred ordinances. The newchurch had not long been finished when La Cit^, in whichthe monks of S. Germain had taken refuge with their trea-sures, was besieged by the Normans, but it was successfullydefended by Bishop Gozlin, who died during the siege. Itis believed that the substructions of this church were founddaring recent excavations in the Parvis Notre Dame, and. NOTRK DAME. architectural fragments then discovered are now preservedat the Palais des Therm es. The first stone of a new and much larger cathedral waslaid by Pope Alexander III. in 1163, under Bishop Mauricede Sully : Afundamentis extruxit ecclesiam cuifreerat, writeshis contemporary Robert of Auxerre. On its first altarHeraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, celebrated mass. Thework advanced rapidly. The choir was finished in 1185, 296 PARIS and two years later Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Henry England, was buried in front of the high-altar. A fewyears later Isabelle de Hainaut, wife of Philippe August^was laid in the same place. Early in the XIII. c, underBishop Pierre de Nemours, the nave, towers, and facadewere completed. It was then that the old church of , where Fredegonde had taken refuge with her trea-sures after the murder of Chilperic (584), was pulled south porch was begun, as its inscription tells, by Jehande Chelles, master mason, February 12,
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