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A 40-year-old Rwandan immigrant already suspected of starting a devastating fire at a French cathedral was questioned by police in connection with the murder of a Catholic priest on Monday in western France.
The 60-year-old priest was a popular leader of retreats.
Anti-clerical revolutionaries expelled the Benedictines in 1790.
While the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris was completely destroyed in last year’s devastating fire, another Notre-Dame cathedral, the largest in France, offers the opportunity to see the spire that it was based on and to venerate a prized relic.
A French bishop who visited the Vatican last week has tested positive for coronavirus, his diocese announced Monday.