Designer describes invitation to work on Notre Dame cathedral's reopening as 'calling'

Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac displays a liturgical vestment for priests and to be worn at the December reopening of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, Nov. 20, 2024. Sketches for liturgical vestments designed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac for the reopening of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral in December, are pictured during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Nov. 20, 2024. Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac displays a liturgical vestment for priests and to be worn at the December reopening of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, Nov. 20, 2024. The steeple and spire of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral collapses as the cathedral is engulfed in flames in central Paris, April 15, 2019.

When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac watched as Notre Dame cathedral burned in April 2019, he felt compelled to act.