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  Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The principal church of the diocese is the Cathedral of St. Catherine, built in the Gothic style in 1524; the former Catholic Cathedral of St. Martin, built 1251-67 in Gothic style, now belongs to the schismatic Jansenists.
Thus Utrecht came under the sovereignty of the Hapsburgs; the chapters voluntarily transferred their right of electing the bishop to Charles V, and Pope Clement VII gave his consent to the proceeding.
Utrecht was taken from Cologne, of which it had been a suffragan, and raised to the rank of an archdiocese and metropolitan see.
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 ROMANESQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE,
Elaborate pre-Romanesque monastic establishments were built at Saint Gall, Switzerland, on the island of Reichenau on the German side of Lake Constance, and at Monte Cassino, Italy, by Benedictine monks.
An early example of the style is the great Church of Saint Philibert (11th cent.) at Tournus, remarkable for its two-storied, groin-vaulted narthex, or entrance porch, which contributed to the development of the two-tower facade.
Among these are the oldest examples of German pre-Romanesque wall painting, in the abbey church of Saint George, in Oberzel, on Reichenau; in Saint Sylvester's Chapel in Goldbach, on the German shore of Lake Constance; and in Saint Andrew's, near the ancient town of Fulda, northeast of Frankfurt.
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 Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cathedral of Saint Martin or Dom Church was the Cathedral of the diocese of Utrecht during the Middle Ages.
Martin of Tours, and the one church in the Netherlands that closely resembles the original French style that later became known as Gothic, even though in contrast to its French predecessors it only has one tower.
Martin's was never to be returned to the Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Martin,_Utrecht   (354 words)

  
 Domkerk
In the middle of the 7th century, it was burnt during the Frisian reconquest of Utrecht.
Utrecht was the capital city of a diocese of the same name.
The Sticht of Utrecht consisted of the present Provinces of Utrecht, Overijssel, Drente and the town of Groningen.
www.domkerk.nl /domchurch/history.html   (1800 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Diocese of Utrecht was established in 695 when Saint Willibrord was consecrated bishop of the Frisians at Rome by Pope Sergius I, and with the consent of the Frankish ruler, Pippin of Herstal, settled at the market-town of Utrecht.
The Cathedral of Saint Martin was taken from the archbishop and his Chapter; in truth the Government of the United Provinces was unable to control the extremists.
At present, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, since 1945 often a cardinal, is the Primate of the Netherlands and the Metropolitan of a province with six suffragans.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographies - S
Canon of of the metropolitan cathedral of Esztergom, 1870-1871.
Buried in thr crypt of the archbishops in the metropolitan cathedral of Cologne.
Buried in the metropolitan and primatial cathedral of Esztergom.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cologne
Cologne, the foremost is the cathedral, the greatest monument of Gothic architecture in Germany.
Apostles; from the Transition and the Gothic periods, Saint Cunibert, Saint Mary in Lyskirchen, the
Saint Anthony, the Carmelites, the Zionites, the Brothers of Saint Martin had each one house.
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 Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht - Definition, explanation
Once this was the country's largest and only cathedral, dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, and the one church in the Netherlands that closely resembles the original French style that later became known as Gothic, even though in contrast to its French examples it only has one tower.
The current cathedral was preceded by one in romanesque style.
Where the rest of the cathedral used to stand is now a square, and differently colored stones indicate the original outlines of the church, and of its predecessors.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 8
The existing Life of the saint dates only from the 13th century, and takes him on a fabulous pilgrimage to Jerusalem as well as narrating a long stay with Saint Enda on Aranmore; but there is no reason to suppose that Cuby was ever in Ireland either.
Martin Tinh was also a priestly native of Tonkin, who was martyred at the age of 80 with his companion (or servant) Martin Tho, also a native of Tonkin (Benedictines).
Saint Willibrord a generation before him, was born in Northumbria.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 14
Nephew of Saint Gregory of Utrecht, Alberic was prior of Saint Martin's cathedral, and on his uncle's death in 775 succeeded to the see of Utrecht.
Saint Sidonius, an Irishman, became a monk at Jumièges (an offshoot of the Irish foundation of Luxeuil) under Saint Philibert in 644.
Later Sidonius was appointed by Saint Ouen, one of the three brothers Saint Columbanus blessed in their childhood, to be the first abbot of a small monastery which that bishop had founded near Rouen: this monastery was later called Saint-Saëns (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Gougaud, Kenney, Montalembert, Tommasini).
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 ALCUIN - LoveToKnow Article on ALCUIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
He was related to Willibrord, the first bishop of Utrecht, whose biography he afterwards wrote.
He was educated at the cathedral school of York, under the celebrated master ^Elbert, with whom he also went to Rome in search of manuscripts.
Charlemagne had just given;him the great abbey of St Martin at Tours, and there, far from the disturbed life of the court, he passed his last years.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographies - M
Consecrated, October 24, 1911, cathedral of Marseille, by Cardinal Pierre-Paulin Andrieu, archbishop of Bordeaux, assisted by Joseph Fabre, bishop of Marseille, and by Dominique Castellan, bishop of Digne.
Judge of the metropolitan tribunal of the archdiocese of Santiago; pro-grand chancellor of the Catholic University of Santiago; and canon penitentiary of the metropolitan cathedral.
Consecrated, July 25, 1930, metropolitan cathedral of Bologna, by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, archbishop of Bologna, assisted by Ettore Lodi, titular bishop of Messene, auxiliary of Bologna, and by Giovanni Franzini, bishop of Carpi.
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 Martin’s O&O Blog
Maarten van Rossum is professor of American Studies (in Dutch: Amerikanistiek) at the University of Utrecht, and is also known in the Netherlands for his elaborate and witty comments on TV about current political affairs.
Instead of staying in expensive hotels we decided to rent apartments which has many advantages: it is cheaper (half the price of an equivalent hotel room), you have more living space, cooking facilities and it is not so touristic.
Wilfrid Voynich discovered the mysterious manuscript, which is written in an unknown language or cipher, in the Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit College near the Italian town Frascati.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 29
Saint Radbod's maternal great-grandfather (also named Radbod) was the last pagan king of Friesland, who said that he preferred to be in hell with his ancestors than in heaven without them.
Today the church of Saint Sernin in Toulouse is the largest Romanesque church in France, and the saint's body lies in the choir, in a great tomb constructed in 1746 and resting on bulls of bronze (Attwater 2, Benedictines, Bentley, Coulson, Encyclopedia).
Saint Sernin is usually portrayed as a bishop dragged by a bull or with a bull at his feet (Roeder).
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 The Life of Saint Kentigern
Since saints’ lives are meant to be models for holy living, parallels between the saint and Christ and between the saint and the apostles and prophets are recorded by the hagiographer.
Saints occupied a place in heaven, but their followers also perceived them as present in the shrine of the cult where their relics were displayed.
The translation of some saints was attributed to supernatural intervention on the part of the saint, as when a saint had miraculously made manifest his or her intention of being transferred to a new location, often because of insufficient veneration in the place of original interment.
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Cathedral of Saint Stephan, in Vienna (Roman Catholic)
Cathedral of the Incarnation, in Baltimore, Maryland (Episcopal)
Cathedral of the Advent, in Birmingham, Alabama (Episcopal)
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 1250s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Europe noted several important cultural milestones, including the completion of several important cathedrals and the beginning of construction of others, as well as the founding of the Collège de Sorbonne at the University of Paris.
Significant political developments in Europe included the lack of a Holy Roman Emperor for most of the decade, further erosion of the power of the monarchy in England and Portugal, the end of the failed Seventh Crusade in Egypt, and the expulsion of the Jews from France and the Moors from Portugal.
1254 - Construction is begun on the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.
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 1254 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Catholic dogma of purgatory is clarified and so named by the Catholic church.
The Horses of Saint Mark, once supposed to have adorned the Arch of Trajan in ancient Rome, are installed at Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Construction is begun on the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.
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 Hotel Utrecht, Hotel Mitland **** Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Tour Utrecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Utrecht is an old Roman city dating from 47 A.D. developed round the settlement of a fort on the river Rhine.
This was the foundation for Utrecht's role as a religious centre.
Utrecht's canals are unique because of the pedestrian walkways (warfs) on either side.
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 Geographic Terms File 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
A third old church, the 8th-century Cathedral of Saint Lambert, was destroyed by the French in 1794; Saint Paul was elevated to a cathedral to take its place in 1801.
Churches, notably Saint Michael at Hildesheim and the cathedrals of Mainz, Speyer, and Worms, were massive, stone-vaulted basilicas with towers and small, round-arched windows.
The lofty cathedrals of Bamberg, Strasbourg, Naumburg, and Cologne were richly decorated with sculpture, and they were filled with light from the stained glass in their large, pointed-arched windows.
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Saint Sever Beatus of Liébana, Commentaries on the Apocalypse (Paris lat.
Sacramentary of the Cathedral of Saint Etienne, Limoges, (Paris, lat.
Saint Denis, Abbey Church, 1135-40; ambulatory: 1140-44; sculpture of w.
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 List of cathedrals
Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht - partly destroyed, the remaining parts are Dom Church, and Dom Tower, no longer the mother church of the archdiocese
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, in New York City (Episcopal)
But we have no justification." "We can select what is useful to us, and reject what does harm." "Yes; but then--" He did not finish the sentence, and they went into the.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
It shows the martyrdom of Saint Andrew, when he is about to be nailed to the cross and is asked to worship idols.
She was influenced by both the Utrecht Caravaggisti and Frans Hals, under whom both she and Molenaer studied.
While the Utrecht school of painters still rounded the surfaces of their objects smoothly between light and shade, Hals and his school adopted a broad, vibrant and independent brushstroke.
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 Flanders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Luther's 95 Theses, published in 1517, had a profound effect on the Low Countries.
It was the iconoclasm of 1566 (the Beeldenstorm) – the demolition of statues and paintings depicting saints – that led to religious war between Catholics and Protestants.
On August 10, 1566 at the end of the pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster (Cloister of Saint Lawrence) was defaced by Protestants.
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, which had been formed out of the monastic schools on the Left Bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame.
In two stints as a regent master Thomas defended the mendicant orders and, of greater historical importance, countered both the Averroistic interpretations of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy.
A Companion to the Summa by Walter Farrell, O.P. Catholic Encyclopedia article on Saint Thomas Aquinas (1907).
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
The artist was born in Utrecht and lived for a short time in The Hague before settling permanently in Amsterdam in 1663.
He portrayed Madonnas as beautiful women, and saints as likable Spanish characters, anticipating the elements of audacious realism that characterized 18th-century religious art.
Obviously his paintings appealed to the taste of the public, besides they revealed a certain talent of the young man. That was why the Franciscan monastery in Seville commissioned this unknown artist with a cycle of 11 paintings with scenes from the lives of Franciscan saints, which brought Murillo fame.
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 Utrecht
As a result, Pope Martin V refused to recognise Rudolf and appointed Rabanus, Bishop of Speyer, instead.
The scene is immortalised by an illustration in a contemporaneous illuminated missal depicting the Pope (later Saint) Martin at prayer together with the newly appointed Bishop.
Later in the same century Konrad (known as "Coenraet van Diepholt"), became Marshall of Utrecht and Castellan of Abcoude from 1540 on.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: The Correspondence of St. Boniface
Brought up at Saint Denys, he was more religious than his brother Pippin the Short and was of great assistance to Boniface.
Saint Paul says: "Do you not know that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost?" And in another place: "Do you not know that you are the temple [122] of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you?
He died in 766 and was buried in a porch or chapel of the cathedral.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/boniface-letters.html   (18755 words)

  
 Josquin Desprez - A discography
The stylistic traits of his music, both in contrapuntal technique and in text-setting, gave the defining direction to the High Renaissance and with it the course of music history as a whole.
Not only was Josquin admired by Martin Luther as the greatest of composers, but his music was distributed throughout Europe and especially in Germany for decades after his death.
Martin Luther Kantorei, Detmold - Eberhard Popp, dir.
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