Saddening Sunday surprise, late late edition

March 16th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — fire at Novodevichy Monastery — h/t Kristina Dei]

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SPEC DQ Overnight fire at Novodevichy Monastery, Moscow

Link to the text of Merton’s superb poem:

  • NPR: Elegy for the Monastery Barn

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    1. Charles Cameron:

      March 16th, 2015 at 4:39 pm

      Fire in Novodevichy Convent bell tower did not damage building:

      It took firefighters almost three hours to extinguish the fire in the Moscow Novodevichy Convent bell tower. The fire, which affected an area of 300 square meters, did not do any damage to the historical building.
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      “The internal premises were not damaged by the fire and external facing plaster fell off in the places affected by the most by the fire,” Alexander Gavrilov, deputy head of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s Main Department for Moscow, told reporters.