The earliest example in England of a library to be endowed for the benefit of users who were not members of an institution such as a cathedral or college was the Francis Trigge Chained Library in Grantham, Lincolnshire, established in 1598.

* The best-known palimpsest in the legal world was discovered in 1816 by Niebuhr and Savigny in the library of Verona cathedral.

The building was demolished in 1778 to make place for a new library, but this was never built and the area next to the cathedral where it stood is today a lawn.

The cathedral library has a collection of about 30, 000 books and pamphlets printed before the 20th century and about 20, 000 later books and serials.

He was a bibliophile, and collected many manuscripts ; some of these he gave to the cathedral library, including a famous manuscript of poetry, the Exeter Book.

After the move to Exeter, Leofric worked to increase the endowment of the diocese, and especially the cathedral library, which he found almost empty upon his arrival.

During Leofric's bishopric, his cathedral library was the fourth largest in England, and was an important scriptorium.

He gave an important manuscript of Old English poetry, the Exeter Book, to the cathedral library in 1072.

Three versions of the donation list drawn up by Leofric survive, which is one of the earliest surviving cathedral library catalogues.

* Hereford: A cathedral city, famous for the chained library in the cathedral, and the Mappa Mundi

During his bishopric, St-Calais stocked the cathedral library with books, especially canon law texts.

While in office as bishop, St-Calais gave a copy of the False Decretals to his cathedral library.

Other works that St-Calais gave to the cathedral library were copies of Augustine of Hippo's De Civitae Dei and Confessions ; Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Moralia, and Homilies ; and Ambrose's De Poenitentia.

He next accepted ( 1816 ) the post of ambassador at Rome, and on his way thither he discovered in the cathedral library of Verona the long-lost Institutes of Gaius, afterwards edited by Savigny, to whom he communicated the discovery under the impression that he had found a portion of Ulpian.

Three libraries were associated with the cathedral: the cathedral library, comprising liturgical books and books forming part of the cathedral treasure, such as the codex aureus, the palace library of the bishop ( as of c. 1381 in Udenheim ) and the library of the cathedral chapter, the largest of the three.

The cathedral contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still holds a portion of the relics of the apostle.

The crypt of the Alexander Nevsky cathedral holds a collection of Eastern Orthodox icons from the 9th to the 19th century.

It still holds the title of cathedral.

Each Christmas, the cathedral holds special services, which are broadcast to the world.

One myth holds that Mrs. Payne Whitney wanted Yale to build a great cathedral with her money, but that the University preferred a gym.

The inside of the cathedral holds the largest collection of Roman epigraphs in Europe, refurbished as a modern museum to contain the carved and inscribed Roman stones.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

The gold treasure taken from the Saracens in Palermo allowed the Pisans to start the building of their cathedral and the other monuments which constitute the famous.

Many cathedral buildings are very famous for their architecture and have local and national significance, both artistically and historically.

Probably this role as temporary ecclesiastical centre played a part in King William II's decision to build here his famous cathedral.

The cathedral is renowned for its Lent sermons founded by the famous Dominican Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire in the 1860s.

After the Angevin conquest the city was particularly beautified by the work of the famous sculptor, Boboccio da Piperno, admired by Queen Consort Margherita of Durazzo who took up her abode in Salerno and was buried in the monumental tomb, which is today in the cathedral.

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year, and the animal is so entrenched in the culture that one famous painting of the Last Supper in the main cathedral in Cusco shows Christ and the twelve disciples dining on guinea pig.

But when he jerked the cathedral out of the model, Stalin objected with his rather famous quote: " Lazar!

However, there were cases in Medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence and transferred to its cathedral the remains of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, and made him or her the city's patron saint – such a practice conferring considerable prestige on the city concerned.

Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.

As a gesture of appreciation for John Fisher ( Anglican bishop ) | John Fisher, the Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned this painting, Constable included the Bishop and his wife in the canvas ( bottom left ). The cathedral is the subject of famous paintings by John Constable.

Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE ( 1916 – 2005 ), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.

Sir Walter Alcock, who was organist of the cathedral from 1916, oversaw a strictly faithful restoration of the famous Father Willis organ, even going to such lengths as to refuse to allow parts of the instrument to leave the cathedral in case any unauthorised tonal alteration were made without his knowledge.

Palma is famous for La Seu, its vast cathedral originally built on a previous mosque.

The van Eycks ' Ghent Altarpiece, then as now famous as a supreme example of Early Netherlandish painting and already a major tourist attraction, just restored in 1550, was saved by dismantling it and hiding it in the cathedral tower.

Since at least the 12th century the cathedral has been an important destination for travellers – and remains so to this day, attracting large numbers of Christian pilgrims, many of who come to venerate its famous relic, the Sancta Camisa, said to be the tunic worn by the Virgin Mary at Christ's birth, as well as large numbers of secular tourists who come to see this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.

Two of the most famous works formerly attributed to René are the triptych of the Burning Bush of Nicolas Froment of Avignon, in the cathedral of Aix, showing portraits of René and his second wife, Jeanne de Laval, and an illuminated Book of Hours in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.

His biographer, Antonio Manetti, described this famous experiment in which Brunelleschi painted two panels: the first of the Florentine Baptistery as viewed frontally from the western portal of the unfinished cathedral, and second the Palazzo Vecchio as seen obliquely from its northwest corner.

" Inside the cathedral entrance is this epitaph: " Both the magnificent dome of this famous church and many other devices invented by Filippo the architect, bear witness to his superb skill.

Guillaume Dufay, the most famous European musician of the 15th century, studied at the cathedral from 1409 to 1412, and returned in 1439 after spending many years in Italy.