Next
year the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing will take place. To
commemorate that event and celebrate those 70 years of Peace on our
continent, the ACCBA (Association Cloche de la paix et de la liberté
pour la Cathédrale de Bayeux) was created in order to symbolize that
event through the casting of a new bell for the cathedral of Bayeux.
The
ACCBA is patronized by the diocese of Bayeux, supported by the
“Normandie Mémoire” association and the "Comité du Débarquement", and the local civil authorities.
It wishes to engrave in bronze, at the very heart of that
thousand-year-old monument spared by WWII, the liberation of France
and Europe and especially the Peace for which all of us today are the
depositaries and the guarantors of tomorrow.
This
international and intergenerational memory project makes concrete in
a symbolic way and at a local level the friendship between the
people. In this spirit, this new bronze lady will be christened by
young people from different nationalities and it will celebrate in
its own way the Peace and Liberty
for the times to come.
