老樹不死，只是凋零
PROJECT: CHÊNE CHAPELLE
LOCATION: ALLOUVILLE-BELLEFOSSE, 法國濱海塞納省
YEAR: 1696
如今，為了應對因樹齡而引起的問題，需要採取多種措施：用結構加固撐起一些樹枝的重量，並用木瓦覆蓋樹皮失去樹皮的部分；只是無法改變的，它的一部分樹幹已經死了。每年兩次的慶祝彌撒，橡樹樹屋教堂是8月15日聖母升天日的朝聖的地點。
“….The oak tree is between 800[1] and 1,200[2] years old. It is 15 metres (49 ft) high and its base has a circumference of 16 metres (52 ft). Its hollow trunk hosts two chapels, which were built there in 1696 and are still used: Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix (“Our Lady of Peace”) and the Chambre de l’Ermite (“Hermit’s room”). [2] A spiral staircase around the trunk provides access to the chapels.[1]
When the tree was nearing 500 years of age, it was struck by lightning; the resulting fire burned slowly through the center and hollowed the tree out. The local Abbot Du Detroit and the village priest, Father Du Cerceau, claimed that the lightning striking and hollowing the tree was an event that had happened with holy purpose. So they built a place of pilgrimage devoted to the Virgin Mary in the hollow. In later years, the chapel above was added, as was the staircase.
During the French Revolution, the tree became an emblem of the old system of governance and tyranny as well as the church that aided and abetted it: a crowd descended upon the village, intent on burning the tree to the ground. However, a local whose name is lost renamed the oak the “Temple of Reason” and as such it became a symbol of the new ways of thinking and was spared.[citation needed]Today, a number of measures are necessary in order to counter problems caused by the age of the tree: poles shore up the weight of some branches, and wooden shingles have been used to cover areas of the tree that have lost their bark; still, part of its trunk is already dead.Twice a year, mass is celebrated in the oak. The oak is the site of a pilgrimage on August 15 (Assumption of Mary)…”
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英文原文出自wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%AAne_chapelle
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