The church that has the function of cathedral is not of necessity a large building.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

She has also been blasted from a cathedral pulpit.

The Duomo ( cathedral ), dedicated to San Salvatore, was originally built in the 14th Century, but it now has a neo-classical appearance thanks to extensive renovation work that was done in the early 19th century under the direction of Sienese architect Agostino Fantasici.

The spot where the Ipatiev House once stood has recently been commemorated by a magnificent cathedral " on the blood.

The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the city's cathedral, as destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route originated in the 9th century.

Architecturally, Uppsala University has traditionally had a strong presence in the area around the cathedral on the western side of the River Fyris.

It has recently been proposed that he may have been a lay agent or representative of the cathedral chapter of Cambrai Cathedral to obtain a relic of St. Elizabeth of Hungary who had made a donation to the cathedral chapter and to whom the chapter dedicated one of the radiating chapels in their new cathedral chevet.

As a whole, the cathedral presents a unity which even the Neoclassical belltower has failed to mar.

The cathedral, designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, has, in its history, undergone radical stylistic changes and the interruption of the two World Wars.

" Nothing I've done ," Doran says, " has held my interest like the cathedral.

On the grounds of the cathedral, toward the south, are several buildings ( including a Synod Hall and the Cathedral School ), and a Biblical garden, as well as a large bronze work of public art by the cathedral's sculptor-in-residence, Greg Wyatt, known as the Peace Fountain, which has been both strongly praised and strongly criticized.

The cathedral has an annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace.

Paul Winter has given many concerts at the cathedral, and the Paul Winter Consort are the artists in residence.

Apart from its organisational function as the seat of the bishop, and the meeting place for the chapter of the diocese, the cathedral has a liturgical function in offering daily church services.

The cathedral generally has a lectern from which the scripture is read.

The cathedral often has its own school, primarily for the education of choristers, but often including other children as well.

With highrise building, civil action has been taken in some cases, such as the Cologne Cathedral to prevent the vista of the cathedral from being spoiled.

From the end of World War I to the an international effort to restore the cathedral from the ruins has continued.

The St. Ursus cathedral has eleven altars and eleven bells, and the stairs in front of the cathedral have levels between every eleven steps.

The formal word for a church that is currently a cathedral is cattedrale ; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral ( the latter always in a town that no longer has a bishop nor therefore a cathedral, as for example Trevi ).

His father's influence at Metz allowed him to obtain for the young Bossuet a canonicate in the cathedral of Metz when the boy was just 13 years old.

Historically, the transformation from a small church to the equivalent of a mainland European cathedral was begun in 1309 under Sir John Truesdale, Vicar of St. Botolph's at a time of historical change and upheaval across the continent and England following the arrests of the Templar's by Phillippe the Fair of France on Friday 13 October 1307.

The cathedral has a secluded Gothic cloister where 13 white geese are kept, the number explained by the assertion that Eulalia was 13 when she was martyred.

* A souvenir model of the cathedral was thrown at the nose of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi during an attack on December 13, 2009.

Julian, suspecting angry Christians were responsible, ordered the cathedral of Antioch closed, and an investigation into the cause of the fire: Ammianus Marcellinus reports " a frivolous rumor " laid the blame to some candles lit by a worshipper late the previous night ( XXII, 13 ).

Johannes Ciconia ( – between 10 June and 13 July 1412 ) was a composer and music theorist of the late Middle Ages, born in Liège but who worked most of his adult life in Italy, particularly in the service of the Papal Chapels and at the cathedral of Padua.

Finally Bishop John translated the body of Ithamar from the old Saxon cathedral to the new Norman one, the whole being dedicated in 1130 ( or possibly 1133 ) by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by 13 bishops in the presence of Henry I, but the occasion was marred by a great fire which nearly destroyed the whole city and damaged the new cathedral.

The old cathedral was completely demolished between May 5 and July 13, 1674.

The 18th-century parish church of Saint Philip in Birmingham was elevated to cathedral status in 1905 when the see was founded, on 13 January 1905.

The large iconostasis of the cathedral of the archangel, 13 meters high, dates from 1678-81.

The cornerstone was laid on December 13, 1967, and the cathedral was completed three years later.

The parish was founded in 1950 and it became a cathedral when the Diocese of Santa Rosa was established by Blessed John XXIII on January 13, 1962.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 13 May from Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, with Bishops Costantino Luna Pianegonda, O. F. M., and José Pellecer Samayoa serving as co-consecrators, in the metropolitan cathedral of Santiago.

Chichester cathedral taken by djnjwd 13 / 07 / 05

The immediate cause of the contract was an attack of the provost of the cathedral ( Grossmünster ) of Zürich, Bruno Brun, on Peter von Gundoldingen, mayor of Lucerne, on September 13, 1370.

The bells of a cathedral are traditionally used to signal the outbreak and the ending of war.

Quasimodo's life within the confines of the cathedral and his only two outlets — ringing the bells and his love and devotion for Frollo — are described.

York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008.

The cathedral was seriously damaged by the severe earthquake of 1382, losing its bells and campanile.

The cathedral has a total of twenty one bells in the three towers:

The South West Tower ( Oxford Tower ) contains the cathedral ’ s main ring of bells, hung for change ringing in the English style.

It was also thought time that the Cathedral invested in its future, by creating a visitor centre within the bell tower, enlarging the peal of bells from eight to ten, and by the ‘ re-construction ’, or completion, of the cathedral cloisters to house the cathedral choir, vestries, an education suite, rooms for parish use, and a refectory, as a reminder of the monastic beginnings.

The bells are not hung in the central tower of the cathedral but in the old gatehouse, Porth y Twr.

The cathedral has a ring of twelve bells ( with an additional " flat sixth ", to make thirteen in total ) hung for change-ringing, located in the Jasper tower.

In 1428 Philippe de Luxembourg claimed that the cathedral was the finest in all of Christianity, for the fineness of its singing, its light, and the sweetness of its bells.

The cathedral contains the oldest ring of ten bells in the United Kingdom, with the 15th century tenor being older than the tower itself.

In 1901 his son Edward created the adjacent " St Patrick's Park " from an area of decrepit housing, and donated a new set of bells to the cathedral.

* In the Giannina Braschi's novel, Empire of Dreams ( 1994 ), the ringing of the church bells at the cathedral marks a pastoral revolution in New York City.

the colors of Friday were dull / as cathedral bells were gently burnin / strikin for the gentle / strikin for the kind / strikin for the crippled ones / an strikin for the blind

Besides, in the case of a general local interdict, it remained permissible to celebrate in the cathedral or the only church in a town, but without any solemnity such as the ringing of bells and the playing of music, Mass, baptism, confession, and marriage.

Although he mainly fought against León and the Castile, he sacked Barcelona in 985, Leon in 988 and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in 997, taking the cathedral bells to be melted down into lanterns for the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

Although it is probable that one or more bells were in the original Saxon cathedral of 604, early records are scant.

The bishop-elect made a number of gifts to the cathedral at Lincoln, including two bells for the bell tower.

It was adorned with Santiago de Compostela ’ s captured cathedral bells.

The cathedral has a ten bell peal of bells.