May 16th 2023: Film showing at the Embassy of France in Washington DC : Chartres! Light Reborn, on the restoration of […]
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Lecture 6: The Colors of Christmas
Click YouTube link for Lecture 6: The Colors of Christmas YouTube Link Help us restore and preserve the cathedral of […]
Colonel Welborn Griffith
Articles Colonel Welborn Griffith 13 December 2022 Read More Articles How Colonel Welborn Griffith Saved Chartres Cathedral 1 March 2022 […]
Colonel Welborn Griffith
Colonel Welborn Barton Griffith, Jr. (1901-1944) On August 16, 1944, an American soldier prevented the bombing of Chartres Cathedral. Featured […]
Lecture 5: WWII and the compelling power of friendship
With Dave and Paul Schulz and Dominique Lallement The fifth lecture brings the cathedral forward in time, from WWII […]
On this Veterans’ Day, November 11th, 2022, AFC honors the memory of Colonel Welborn Griffith and Eugene Schulz
Eugene Schulz, 1923- 2022, served as a Staff Sergeant assigned to Colonel Welborn Griffith, in the XX Corps Headquarters attached […]
Lecture 4: Obscure Chartres by Mike Klug
Why is this on a Christian cathedral? In lecture 4 Mike probes the mysteries surrounding some of the architectural elements […]
Lecture 3: Liberal Arts by Mike Klug
In the third lecture, Mike presents a medieval Renaissance. Contrary to the implied image of ‘the Dark Ages’, the rediscovery […]
Lecture 2: Time by Mike Klug
In the second lecture, Mike Klug examines the notion of time as it is represented throughout the cathedral. Visible in […]
Lecture 1: Chartres Overview by Mike Klug
In the first of his intimate talks, Mike introduces us to Chartres by placing the cathedral in its geographical, historical […]
