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The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (informally Cairo of the Syriacs) is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Egypt. It is immediately exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, though not part of his or any other ecclesiastical province . Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of ...
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens ( French: Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens ), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some ...
The exterior of Baron Empain Palace. Heliopolis ( Egyptian Arabic: مصر الجديدة, Maṣr el-Gedīda, [ˈmɑsˤɾ el ɡɪˈdiːdæ, -eɡ-], lit. "New Egypt") was an early 20th century suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo and is administratively divided into the districts of Masr El Gedida and El Nozha in the ...
The devotion to Our Lady Consolatrix Afflictorum was initiated in Luxembourg by the Jesuits in 1624 and led to the election of Our Lady as the protectress of the City in 1666 and of the Duchy in 1678. After the destruction of the old pilgrimage chapel at the time of the French Revolution, the statue of Our Lady of Luxembourg was moved to the ...
History. The Cathedral of Prizren was commissioned in 1870 by Dario Bucciarelli, Archbishop of Skopje. Its clocktower was built by Thomas Glasnovic, a Croatian monk and architect. The cathedral among its frescoes features in the north side of the church a fresco of Skanderbeg painted in 1883 by Gjergj Panariti an Albanian monk and painter from ...
Maputo. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception ( Portuguese language: Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição), commonly known as the Maputo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The cathedral is located on Praça da Independência (Independence Square) next to Hotel ...
Our Lady’s is the pride of Antwerp, finished in 1521 after 170 years of construction. As soon as you enter, you sense the quest here for higher things. What you see is partly Baroque, partly 19th-century Neo-Gothic. The Cathedral’s furnishings, stained-glass windows, mausoleums, paintings, sculptures and organs are of sublime quality.
