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cattedrale di Notre-Dame d'Embrun

Embrun, Italy

cattedrale di Notre-Dame d'Embrun

Embrun Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Réal d'Embrun) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral located in the town of Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France. The cathedral is a national monument and was the seat of the former Archbishopric of Embrun, which was divided between the Bishopric

of Gap and the Archbishopric of Aix in 1822. On its door were posted in 1489 the thirty-two propositions imputed to the Waldenses, that presaged the campaign to extirpate them as heretics, which resurfaced in the Dauphiné with intense savagery during the Wars of Religion in France: Lesdiguières pillaged Embrun Cathedral in 1585. This saw the destruction of a fresco on one of the porches, probably painted in the 13th century, representing the Three Wise Men visiting Mary and Jesus, which had been the object of a celebrated pilgrimage for many centuries and had given the cathedral its name ("réal" in this instance means "royal"). In the fifth century relics of St Nazarius were translated to Embrun, which had supported a bishop since the fourth century; Embrun became a noted place of pilgrimage. Charlemagne erected the basilica that was visited by Pope Leo III. The current cathedral church...

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