Église Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours

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The Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours Basilica in Paris is a minor Catholic basilica, one of the five minor basilicas in Paris, located 55, boulevard de Ménilmontant, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, elevated to the rank of minor basilica on June 25, 1966 by Pope Paul VI, affiliated with the Basilica Sainte-Marie-Majeure of Rome.

In 1872, the rector Maurice d'Hulst built a modest chapel dedicated to the Sacred Heart and Saint Hippolyte for the help of Joseph Hippolyte Guibert during the Paris Commune. Two years later, in 1874, the building was entrusted to the Redemptorist congregation, which installed an icon of Notre-Dame du Perpetuel Secours. Following a mission to the refugees of Alsace-Lorraine who came to Paris after the Franco-German war of 1870, they worked to evangelize the neighborhood. During the period of the French Revolution, prohibited from celebrating worship, they temporarily left the chapel from November 1880 to January 1881, only taking over their ministry in 1888. In 1898, the chapel, which had become small, gave way to a new neo-Gothic building built by Brother Gérard Grunblatt. She becomes a church...