Candle procession returns Virgin Mary statue to rebuilt Notre-Dame Cathedralbr br A procession of hundreds of people holding candles walk through the streets of Paris to bring a famed statue of the Virgin Mary and child back to Notre-Dame Cathedral on Nov. 15, 2024, five years after it was moved to a nearby church after a devastating fire. Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Paris landmark built over nearly 200 years starting in the middle of the 12th century, is due to reopen on Dec. 8 with days of festivities after the fire that ravaged it on April 15, 2019.