the Christian church, which caused them to write songs showing praise to God. People believed that if they were to sing to God, that He would intern, hear them and their prayers. And in most cases, people would devout their lives as nuns or monks, who would later develop the Gregorian chant. Another relation, which was made, was the cathedral. The one of the reason that cathedrals were made was because people wanted to show their devotion to God. The cathedrals were built as high as was possible back then and sometimes beyond that, reaching heights that would make them look as if they ended in heaven. This was what the builders were trying to do, make their cathedral the biggest and most inventive in all of Europe. With a great cathedral came a great stain glass window, which would sometimes take up a whole side of a cathedral. The cathedrals were a, “ source of religious edification, a medium of divine light, and a delight to the eye”(127). Also, the stain glass windows were used to let light come into the House of God, making it seem more divine than any other church. People used to think that light was a symbol of Jesus, who said that, “I am the light of the world,”(John 8.12). Many followers of the church gave up their money, blood, sweat and sometime life in order to have the best cathedral in all of Europe. And the cathedrals would be decorated with sculptures of Jesus and other saintly figures, which were looking over the town.The main reason that people did all of this was to enter the Kingdom of God. That’s why people devoted so much of their lives to the church, because they thought that if they had something to do with the church, that they would enter heaven. Many people were painters, some entered the monasteries, and others built these magnificent cathedrals. ...
