St. Venigne Cathedral (fr. Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne de Dijon) - the cathedral in Dijon, a national monument of France, one of the main attractions of the city.
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| Construction | 1280 - 1325 years |
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The cathedral was built in a pronounced Gothic style between 1280 and 1325 on the site of an earlier church , supposedly built in the 5th - 6th centuries , damaged by fires and an earthquake . It was consecrated on April 9, 1393 in honor of St. Venign , an early Christian saint who suffered martyrdom on the territory of Burgundy . Under the leadership of Hugo Arksky , a native of a noble local family, the construction was erected relatively quickly, but after his death in 1300 the construction slowed down.
The abbey was secularized during the French Revolution , but the church in 1792 became the cathedral of the Diocese of Dijon , in 2002 it received the status of an archdiocese , although its rotunda was destroyed.
In the cathedral there is a part of the relics of St. Venign, and Philip III the Good is also buried there.
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- ↑ 1 2 base Mérimée - ministère de la Culture , 1978.
- ↑ 1 2 archINFORM - 1994.