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THE "BUTTER TOWER."

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 46.

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THE "BUTTER TOWER."

AMONG the magnificent Catholic cathedrals of Europe is that of Notre Dame de Rouen, in France. Its great central tower is 485 feet high, next to Cologne, the highest in Europe.
Another of its towers, 260 feet high, is called the Butter Tower. It was erected with money paid by devout Catholics who wished to use butter during Lent. They were given by the church authorities permission to do this if the money could be given to the cathedral tower. They thus paid for their butter twice, and the church reaped a harvest from their indulgence.