THE CHURCH OF ST. EUSTACHE
The church of St. Eustache, which is located in the first district of Paris and is located in close proximity to the former Central Market,
and in our time this center is called Le-Al. The church building is considered one of the last churches in the Gothic style. This majestic
church combines Renaissance forms of classical facades and Gothic architecture.
The history of the church begins precisely with the chapel Agnes, which was built here in the distant XIII century. In 1233, on the site
of this chapel, it was decided to build a church of St. Eustachius, whose holy relics have been buried since the foundation. Thus
began a long history of reconstruction, construction and restoration after revolutions and fires. For some time this original church
was considered an ordinary court church, because it was only 300 meters from the famous Louvre.
The very birth of the church is connected with the market, and, at the very beginning of the XIII century, one citizen from the king
himself was given the right to charge all the fish from the local market Le-Al. Some part of the "fallen" on the man's wealth was
launched precisely for the construction of a small church of Sts. Agnes. Further, the temple expanded with the flock, and after a
while for an unclear reason, the church of St. Agnes began to be called Saint-Eustache.
Eustathius was a famous Roman military commander who converted to Christianity and was martyred as a result. Many Catholics
honored St. Eustathius for many hundreds of years, but then came Pope Paul VI, who in 1969 re-read the life of the saints,
immediately republished the calendar of holidays, from which Eustathius himself fell out with the simple formulation of
"shamelessness implausible."
The church of St. Eustache, which is located in the first district of Paris and is located in close proximity to the former Central Market,
and in our time this center is called Le-Al. The church building is considered one of the last churches in the Gothic style. This majestic
church combines Renaissance forms of classical facades and Gothic architecture.