Cambrai Cathedral

Coordinates: 50°10′20″N 3°14′0″E / 50.17222°N 3.23333°E / 50.17222; 3.23333
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Cambrai Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Archdiocese of Cambrai
RiteLatin Rite
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusCathedral
Location
LocationCambrai, France France
Geographic coordinates50°10′20″N 3°14′0″E / 50.17222°N 3.23333°E / 50.17222; 3.23333
Architecture
TypeChurch
StyleNeoclassical
Groundbreaking1696-1703
A Thanksgiving Service attended by Canadian troops being held in the Cambrai Cathedral, October, 1918

Cambrai Cathedral (

Archbishop of Cambrai. The cathedral was registered as a monument historique on 9 August 1906.[1]

It was built between 1696 and 1703, on the site of a former 11th-century building, as the church of the Abbey of Saint-Sépulcre. During the

archbishopric
in 1841.

The cathedral was severely damaged by fire in 1859, but at length restored, with advice from

basilica minor by Pope Leo XIII on 17 March 1896.[2]

It was also badly damaged in World War I and, not so seriously, in World War II.

It contains the tomb, by

Virgin of Tenderness" from this painting, from the Eleusa icon type it exemplifies. In the same chapel is a memorial erected by Hilaire Belloc
to commemorate his son who was killed nearby in the last days of World War I.

References

  1. ^ Base Mérimée Notice No PA00107395 Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Grâce
  2. ^ Archidiocesan website

Sources

  • Eugène Bouly, Histoire de Cambrai et du Cambrésis, vol. 1, Cambrai, Hattu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1842 (version)
  • Eugène Bouly, Histoire de Cambrai et du Cambrésis, vol. 2, Cambrai, Hattu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1842 (version)
  • Jules Houdoy, Histoire artistique de la cathédrale de Cambrai, Paris: D. Morgand and C. Fatout, 1880 (version)
  • Louis Trenard (dir.) and Charles Pietri, Histoire des Pays-Bas Français, Édouard Privat, coll. "Univers de la France et des Pays francophones / Histoire des Provinces", 1974 (1st ed. 1974)
  • Louis Trenard (dir.) and Michel Rouche (preface by Jacques Legendre), Histoire de Cambrai, vol. 2, Presses Universitaires de Lille, coll. "Histoire des villes du Nord / Pas-de-Calais", 1982 (1st ed. 1982), 314 p.
    ISBN 2859392017
  • Michel Dussart (dir.), Mémoire de Cambrai, Cambrai, Société d'Emulation de Cambrai, 2004, 220 p.
    ISBN 2858450013
  • Revue du Nord, Louis Trenard (dir.), Université de Lille III, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Tome LVIII no 230, numéro spécial "Cambrai et le Cambrésis", juillet-septembre 1976
  • Henri Jenny, Cathédrale de Cambrai: l'abbaye du Saint-Sépulcre, Cambrai, Mallez impr., 1970, 48 p.

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