St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges
Artist: Robert Chantrell
1250
Architecture
St. Salvator's Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of the Saviour and St. Donat, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Bruges, Belgium. The cathedral is dedicated to the Verrezen Zaligmaker (the 'risen saviour') and Saint-Donatius of Reims.
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
1137 - 1538
Architecture
One of the city’s most recognizable symbols, St. Stephen’s Cathedral lies in Stephansplatz in the heart of Vienna. is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the archbishop of Vienna.
The church was dedicated to St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and so was oriented toward the sunrise on his feast day of 26 December, as the position stood in the year that construction began. Built of limestone, the cathedral is 351 ft long, 130 ft wide, and 446 ft tall at its highest point.
St. Vitus Cathedral
Artist: Matthias of Arras
c. 930
Architecture
St. Vitus is a Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral but was renamed The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert.
The current cathedral is the third of a series of religious buildings at the site, all dedicated to St. Vitus. The first church was an early Romanesque rotunda founded by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia in 930. This patron saint was chosen because Wenceslaus had acquired a holy relic – the arm of St. Vitus – from Emperor Henry I. It is also possible that Wenceslaus, wanting to convert his subjects to Christianity more easily, chose a saint whose name (Svatý Vít in Czech) sounds very much like the name of Slavic solar deity Svantevit.
Wars and politics prevented the completion of the cathedral for centuries. n 1844, Václav Pešina, an energetic St. Vitus canon, together with Neo-Gothic architect Josef Kranner presented a program for renovation and completion of the great cathedral.
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