cathedral-forest

Updated: May 19, 2025

Up the hillside, in deeper shadow, was another little structure; a wooden shed with an open gable sheltering an altar with candles and flowers. Here mass is said by one of the conscript priests of the regiment, while his congregation kneel between the fir-trunks, giving life to the old metaphor of the cathedral-forest.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort