NPR's Sara Chayes reports on Malcom Miller, an Englishman who has made his life's work to learn, and tell, the history of France's Chartres Cathedral. Since the 1950's, Miller has given tours of ...

If Notre Dame de Chartres was France’s first cathedral to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979, it is primarily because it is considered the most complete and best-preserved of the ...

More than 19,000 young Catholics from around the world joined this year’s traditional pilgrimage — a beacon of hope for ...

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century. Subscribe Archives ...

Close up of one section of an early 13th-century stained glass window in Chartres Cathedral, showing a horse-drawn wagon and barrel belonging to the guild of water-carriers.

With his paper almost finished, Miller returned to Chartres at Easter, 1958, and was granted permission by the cathedral to give tours in English. It was not so much an act of devotion as a way to ...

Chartres Cathedral clean-up row: Experts divided over whether dirt should be left in place to keep ‘authentic’ Gothic feel. Ambitious internal renovation project has startling effect, but for ...

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.