- Saint-Claude Cathedral
Saint-Claude Cathedral ("Cathédrale Saint-Claude de Saint-Claude") is a
Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument ofFrance , located in the town of Saint-Claude. The town was originally named "Saint-Oyand" afterSaint Eugendus . However, when St. Claudius had, in687 , resigned his Diocese ofBesançon and had died, in696 , as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Eugendus ] ]The
Bishopric of Saint-Claude was created in 1742, out of the parishes in the care of the ancientCondat Abbey , established in the 5th century, around which the town of Saint-Claude had grown up. The abbey church, built in the 15th century, became the cathedral.References
External links
* [http://www.scholares.net/index.php?Gazetteer-Saint-Claude Location of the cathedral]
* [http://www.adhocpipe.com/Images/scpipe2.jpgPhoto of the cathedral]ources
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dscla.html Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Saint-Claude]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13341a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint-Claude]
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