Day 20 - Albert Gilles Botique

We actually had one more stop - the Albert Gilles Botique. Mr. Gilles was the gentleman who created the beautiful doors on the basilica. He has since died but his daughters continue his craft in this botique.

This is one of his daughters demonstrating how the design is pressed into the copper sheet. It takes hours to create even minor sized objects. If you press too hard, you can tear the copper, and then all you can do is throw it away and start over.

This is an example of pannels like the doors on the basilica.

Before he died, Mr. Giles created a Christorama where he depicted in frames of copper the events in Christ's life - this is the one showing the crufixion.

So this is the end of a most interesting tour. And the day was less than half done.