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		</div><p>Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting its bells back, just in time for the medieval landmark’s re-opening following a devastating fire in 2019.</p>
<p>A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than four tons — pulled into the huge worksite surrounding the monument on Thursday on an island in the Seine River.</p>
<p>They are being blessed in a special ceremony inside the cathedral before being hoisted to hang in its twin towers for the December 8 re-opening to the public.</p>
<p>Cathedral Rector Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, wearing a hardhat as he prepared to enter the cathedral and bless the bells, called them “a sign that the cathedral will again resonate, and that its voice will be heard again. A sign of the call to prayer, and a sign of coming together”.</p>
<p>The bells will be raised one by one and tested out, but they will not ring in full until the day of the re-opening, said Philippe Jost, overseeing the massive Notre Dame reconstruction project.</p>
<p>He called the bells’ arrival “a very beautiful symbol of the cathedral’s rebirth”.</p>
<p>While construction on the cathedral started in the 12th century, the bronze bells damaged in the fire are from the 21st century.</p>
<p>They were built according to historical tradition to replace older bells that had become discordant, to mark the monument’s 850th anniversary.</p>
<p>The cathedral’s roof and spire, which collapsed in the fire, have been replaced, and scaffolding is being gradually removed from the site.</p>
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