Wren's Cathedral in the Ashes

In September 1666, the Great Fire of London consumed thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, and the medieval St. Paul's Cathedral. The city smoldered for days....

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15.

In September 1666, the Great Fire of London consumed thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, and the medieval St. Paul's Cathedral. The city smoldered for days. Refugees camped in open fields beyond the walls, and most Londoners assumed the capital would never recover its former glory. Yet within weeks, while ash still clung to every surface, architect Christopher Wren walked through the wreckage and presented King Charles II with plans for a magnificent new cathedral.…