{"id":273459,"date":"2019-04-18T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMTgvZXRoaW9waWFuLWNyb3NzLW9mZmVyZWQtYnktaGFpbGUtc2VsYXNzaWUtc3Vydml2ZXMtbm90cmUtZGFtZS1maXJlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:25","slug":"haile-selassies-ethiopian-cross-survived-the-notre-dame-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273459","title":{"rendered":"Haile Selassie\u2019s Ethiopian cross survived the Notre-Dame fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the April 2019 Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in Paris, Ethiopia confirmed that a cross gifted by Emperor <strong>Haile Selassie<\/strong> in 1954 was among treasures that survived the blaze, Africanews reported.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-155\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ethiopian-Church.-crossJPG.jpg?fit=768%2C503&ssl=1\" alt=\"Haile Selassie\u2019s Ethiopian cross survived the Notre-Dame fire\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The gift linked Ethiopian imperial diplomacy to one of Europe\u2019s most watched churches. Its survival became a small bright note inside a week of global shock over the burning roof.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage stories travel because objects carry state memory. A cross from Haile Selassie is not only metalwork. It is a reminder of how Ethiopia narrated itself abroad in the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>For a Horn culture archive, the Notre-Dame cross file is worth keeping: fire, empire, faith, and modern Ethiopia\u2019s claim on a piece of Parisian sacred history that did not burn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/18\/ethiopian-cross-offered-by-haile-selassie-survives-notre-dame-fire\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian cross offered by Haile Selassie survives Notre-Dame fire&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsEthiopia on Thursday confirmed that a cross offered to the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 1954 was among some of the pieces of history that survived a blaze that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ethiopian-Church.-crossJPG.jpg?fit=833%2C546&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-198D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600854,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459\/revisions\/600854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}