Usus Antiquior Services.

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Zephyrinus is delighted to publicise

Usus Antiquior Masses,

which are Celebrated in Kent

on a regular Weekly basis on Sundays

and on Feast Days and Holy Days of Obligation

during the Week.

Also, in Essex (Leigh-on-Sea) on
The First Sunday of every Month.

There is a vibrant and happy group

who attend these Masses

and meet, after Mass (in Kent),
for lovely Lunches in various hostelries.

Do come and join us.
You will all be most welcome.

Besides Glorifying God in an Edifying,
Holy, and Catholic, manner, you will see
the wonderful Kent and Essex countrysides

changing throughout the Seasons,

which, in itself, Glorifies God.

                   

TENTERDEN, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW.

SAINT ANDREW'S

CATHOLIC CHURCH,

TENTERDEN.

Usus Antiquior Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Andrew,
47, Ashford Road,
Tenterden, Kent TN30 6LL,

at 1200 hrs,

EVERY SUNDAY

and on Feast Days and Holy Days of Obligation.

RAMSGATE, KENT.

SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH.

Zephyrinus is grateful to Tony V at PRAY TELL UNCHAINED

for providing information on Usus Antiquior Masses in Ramsgate, Kent.

The Ramsgate Web-Site is

THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF RAMSGATE AND MINSTER

Usus Antiquior Mass at Saint Augustine's,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Image: SAINT AUGUSTINE'S, RAMSGATE, KENT

Saint Augustine's Shrine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Image: AUGUSTINE'S SHRINE.

Times of Usus Antiquior Masses.

RAMSGATE, KENT.

Saint Augustine’s Church,

Saint Augustine’s Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9PA.

Telephone: 01843 592 071.

Usus Antiquior Masses at

1200 hrs on every Sunday

and

0930 hrs on Fridays.

RAMSGATE, KENT.

SAINT ETHELBERT

AND

SAINT GERTRUDE CHURCH.

Saint Ethelbert and Saint Gertrude Church,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Illustration:

THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF RAMSGATE AND MINSTER

Saint Ethelbert and Saint Gertrude Church,

72, Hereson Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 7DS.

Usus Antiquior Mass at

0930 hrs every Wednesday.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS,

KENT.

SAINT AUGUSTINE’S CHURCH.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Illustration: THE CIVIC SOCIETY

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT.

Saint Augustine’s Church,

Crescent Road,

Royal Tunbridge Wells,

Kent TN1 2LY.

Telephone: 01892 522525.

Usus Antiquior Mass at

1900 hrs every Wednesday.

CHISLEHURST,

KENT.

SAINT MARY’S CHURCH.

Saint Mary's Church,

Chislehurst, Kent.

Illustration: ARCHDIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK

CHISLEHURST, KENT.

Saint Mary's Church

28 Crown Lane,

Chislehurst,

Kent BR7 5PL.

E-Mail: chislehurst@rcaos.org.uk

Telephone: 020 8467 3215.

Usus Antiquior Mass at

1100 hrs every Sunday

and

1930 hrs every Friday.

LEIGH-ON-SEA,

ESSEX.

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES

AND SAINT JOSEPH.

Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Joseph Church,

Image: OUR LADY OF LOURDES

LEIGH-ON-SEA, ESSEX.

Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Joseph Church,

161, Leigh Road,

Leigh-on-Sea,

Essex SS9 1J.

Telephone: 01702 478078.

E-Mail: leighonsea@dioceseofbrentwood.org

Web-Site: OUR LADY OF LOURDES

Usus Antiquior Mass at

1600 hrs on The First Sunday of every Month.

Followed by

Solemn Vespers

and

Benediction.

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“The Mass Of The Foundation Of The Trinitarian Order”.

Artist: Juan Carreño de Miranda.

Illustration: LOUVRE

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Advent And Christmas. 2022.

Advent 2022 begins on

Sunday, 27 November.

York Minster.

Photo: 31 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diliff

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

License: CC-BY-SA 3.0".

(Wikimedia Commons)

The York Minster Web-Site is HERE.

York Minster.

Illustration: THE PRESS

York Minster

Advent and Christmas 2018.

Available on You Tube at

YOU TUBE

Advent And Christmas. 2022.

Advent 2022 begins on

Sunday, 27 November.

Gloucester Cathedral

Advent and Christmas Services.

Details available at

GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

“Advent”.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The Gloucester Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

English: The Cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral, with Fan-Vaulted Roof, were used as a location in The Harry Potter films.

Deutsch: Der Kreuzgang der Kathedrale von Gloucester.

Esperanto: Klostro de Katedralo Gloucester.

Українська: Крита галерея Глостерського собору, Глостер, Англія.

Photo: 17 January 2018.

Source: Own work.

Author: Christopher JT Cherrington

(Wikimedia Commons)

“In The Bleak Mid-Winter”.

Sung by: Gloucester Cathedral Choir.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Gloucester Cathedral.

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and The Holy and Indivisible Trinity. Foundation work began in 1089.

Photo: 4 June 2011.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: Saffron Blaze, via http://www.mackenzie.co

Author: Saffron Blaze

(Wikimedia Commons)

Gloucester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Advent And Christmas. 2022.

Advent 2022 begins on

Sunday, 27 November.

Chester Cathedral.

The building of The Nave, begun in 1323,

was halted by The Plague, and was completed 150 years later.

Photo: 22 May 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Michael Beckwith

(Wikimedia Commons)

“Advent”.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The Chester Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

Chester Cathedral Choir.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Chester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Advent And Christmas. 2022.

Advent 2022 begins on

Sunday, 27 November.

Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 16 March 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: DrMoschi

(Wikimedia Commons)

“Advent”.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The Lincoln Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

Lincoln Cathedral Choir sing

“Oh, Holy Night”.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Lincoln Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Advent And Christmas. 2022.

Advent 2022 begins on

Sunday, 27 November.

The Lady Chapel,

Westminster Cathedral.

Photo: June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gryffindor

(Wikimedia Commons)

“Advent”.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The Westminster Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

Westminster Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

“The New-Born King”.

Westminster Cathedral.

1985.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The First Sunday Of Advent.

Abbot Prosper Guéranger, O.S.B.

1805-1875.

Printmaker was Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard (1834–1887).

Published 1878, or earlier.

Date: 7 May 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.

Author: The original uploader was

Ikanreed at English Wikipedia

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Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 1.
Advent.

This Sunday, the first of The Ecclesiastical Year, is called, in the chronicles and charts of The Middle Ages, “Ad te levavi” Sunday, from the first words of the Introit; or, “Aspiciens a longe”, from the first words of one of the Responsories of Matins.

The Station is at Saint Mary Major.

[Editor: The Stations marked in The Roman Missal for certain days in the year, were formerly Processions, in which the whole Clergy and people went to some given Church, and there Celebrated The Office and The Mass.

[This usage, which dates from the earliest period of The Roman Church, and of which Saint Gregory the Great was but the restorer, still exists, at least in a measure; for the Stations are still observed, though with less solemnity and concourse of people, on all the days specified in The Missal].

It is under the auspices of Mary — in the splendid Basilica which possesses The Crib of Bethlehem, and is therefore called, in ancient documents, “Saint Mary’s ad Præsepe” — that The Roman Church recommences, each year, The Sacred Cycle.

It would have been impossible to select a place more suitable than this for saluting the approach of The Divine Birth, which is to gladden Heaven and Earth, and manifest the sublime portent of a Virgin Mother.

Let us go in spirit to this august temple, and unite in the Prayers which are there being offered up: They are now the very ones we also use, and which we will now explain.

In The Night Office, The Church commences the reading of The Book of Isaias, who, of all the Prophets, has the most distinctly and explicitly foretold mention of The Messias; and she continues this same Book [Editor: Of Isaias] until Christmas Day, inclusive.

Let us strive to enter into the teaching of the holy Prophet, and let the eye of our Faith affectionately recognise the promised Saviour in the descriptions, sometimes consoling and sometimes terrifying, under which Isaias depicts Him.

The first words of The Church, in the still Midnight, are these:

Regem venturum Dominum, venite, adoremus.

Come, let us adore The King, Our Lord, Who is to come.

There follows the reading of The Book of the Prophet Isaias.

The words of the holy Prophet, or, rather, of God, Who speaks to us by the Prophet, should make a deep impression on The Children of The Church, at this opening of the holy period of Advent.

Who could hear without trembling this voice of Our Lord, Who is despised and unknown even at the very time when He is coming to visit His people ?

Lest men should be terrified at the splendour of His majesty, He divested Himself of it; and far from acknowledging the Divine Power of Him Who thus humbled Himself out of love to them, these men have refused even to know Him; and the Crib where He lay after His birth, had, at first, but two dumb animals to honour or notice it.

The whole World is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation.

The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of a mother for the safety of her children; she cries out to Thee, saying: “Come !” No, we will go no farther in our journey through the desert of this life without Thee, O Jesus !

Time is passing quickly away from us; our day is perhaps far spent, and the shades of our life’s night are fast coming on; arise, O Divine Sun of Justice. Come ! Guide our steps and save us from eternal death.

From First Vespers In Advent To Second Vespers Of 2 February (Feast Of The Purification Of Our Blessed Lady), The Marian Anthem Is "Alma Redemptoris Mater".

"Love's Pure Light".

The Blessed Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.

Artist: Kathy Lawrence.

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Six Voices.

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Cantar Lontano.

Director: Marco Mencoboni.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/iVT9sxyr2I0

ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER

Alma Redemptoris Mater,

quæ pervia cæli Porta manes,

et stella maris, succurre cadenti,

Surgere qui curat, populo:

tu quæ genuisti,

Natura mirante,

tuum sanctum Genitorem,

Virgo prius ac posterius,

Gabrielis ab ore,

Sumens illud Ave,

peccatorum miserere.

Mother of Christ ! Hear thou thy people's cry,

Star of the Deep, and Portal of the Sky !

Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made,

Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid;

Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee,

Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.

"Alma Redemptoris Mater"

(Simple Tone).

Available on YouTube at

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Alma Redemptoris Mater (English: Loving Mother of Our Saviour) is a Marian Hymn, written in Latin hexameter, and one of four Seasonal Liturgical Marian Antiphons sung at the end of The Office of Compline (the other three Antiphons being Ave Regina Cælorum, Regina Cœli and Salve Regina).

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

(Ávila, Spain, 1548 - Madrid, Spain, 1611).

Sung by:

Ensemble Plus Ultra.

Director: Michael Noone.

Available on YouTube at

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Hermannus Contractus (also called Herman the Cripple, 1013–1054) is said to have composed the Hymn, based on the writings of Saints Fulgentius, Epiphanius, and Irenaeus of Lyon.

The Alma Redemptoris Mater is mentioned in The Prioress's Tale, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

It is sung at The Divine Office of Compline, from First Vespers of Advent, until Second Vespers of The Feast of the Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary (2 February).

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

(1525 – 1594).

Sung by:

The Tallis Scholars.

Director of Music: Peter Phillips.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

La Médaille Miraculeuse. The Miraculous Medal. The Medal Of Our Lady Of Graces. Feast Day, Today, 27 November. In The Diocese Of Brooklyn, United States Of America.

La Médaille Miraculeuse.

The Miraculous Medal.

Illustration: FACEBOOK RICHARD HAWKER

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Miraculous Medal (French: Médaille Miraculeuse), also known as The Medal of Our Lady Of Graces, is a Medal, the design of which was originated by Saint Catherine Labouré following her Apparitions of The Blessed Virgin Mary in Rue du Bac, Paris, France, and made by a Goldsmith, Adrien Vachette.

According to the Teaching of The Catholic Church, the use of Sacramentals, such as this Medal, prepare people to receive Grace and dispose them to co-operate with it.

Catherine Labouré stated that, on 19 July 1830, The Eve of The Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, she woke up after hearing the voice of one child calling her to the Chapel, where she heard The Virgin Mary say to her: “God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the Grace to do what is necessary. Tell your Spiritual Director all that passes within you. Times are evil in France and in the World.”

On 27 November 1830, Catherine reported that The Blessed Mother returned during evening Meditations. She displayed herself inside an oval frame, standing upon a globe. She wore many rings, set with gems, that shone rays of light over the globe.

Around the margin of the frame, appeared the words: “Ô, Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous” (“O, Mary, conceived without sin, Pray for us who have recourse to thee”). As Catherine watched, the frame seemed to rotate, showing a circle of twelve stars, a large letter M surmounted by a Cross, and the stylised Sacred Heart of Jesus Crowned with Thorns and Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a Sword.

Asked why some of the gems did not shed light, Mary reportedly replied: “Those are the Graces for which people forget to ask.” Sister Catherine then heard The Virgin Mary ask her to take these images to her Father Confessor, telling him that they should be put on Medallions, and saying: “All who wear them will receive great Graces.”

Sister Catherine did so, and after two years of investigation and observation of Catherine's ordinary daily behaviour, the Priest took the information to his Archbishop without revealing Catherine's identity. The request was approved and Medallions were designed and produced through a Goldsmith, Adrien Vachette.

The Chapel, in which Saint Catherine experienced her Visions, is located at The Mother House of The Daughters of Charity in Rue du Bac, Paris. The incorrupt bodies of Saint Catherine Labouré and Saint Louise de Marillac, a Co-Founder of The Congregation Of The Daughters Of Charity Of Saint Vincent De Paul, are interred in the Chapel, which continues to receive daily visits from Catholic Pilgrims, today.

Pope John Paul II used a slight variation of the reverse image as his Coat-of-Arms, The Marian Cross, a plain Cross with an M underneath the Right-Hand Bar (which signified The Blessed Virgin at The Foot of The Cross when Jesus was being Crucified).

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal.
   Feast Day 27 November

      (in The Diocese of Brooklyn, New York).

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

IN THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Our Blessed Lady, appearing in the year 1832 to Catherine Labouré, a Sister of Charity, showed her the pattern of Medal now universally known as “The Miraculous Medal”, because of the many wonders which it has pleased Almighty God to work by its means in His Church.

Among these is the marvellous Conversion, in Rome, in 1842, of the Jew, Alphonse Ratisbonne.

Mass: Erit quasi signum.
The Nicene Creed: Is said or sung.

English: Fr. Ratisbonne in 1865.

Français: Cdv du Père Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.

Date: 1865.

Source: Cdv ancienne.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia.

Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, N.D.S., (May 1, 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France - May 6, 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who Converted to Catholicism and became a Jesuit Catholic Priest and Missionary.

He later was a Co-Founder of The Congregation Of Our Lady of Sion, a Religious Congregation dedicated to the Conversion of Jews to The Catholic Faith.

Winston’s Way With Words.

“The Roaring Lion”.

30 December 1941.

Collection: Library and Archives Canada

Photographer: Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustration: FINE ART AMERICA

“A single glass of Champagne

imparts a feeling of exhilaration.

The nerves are braced.

The imagination is agreeably shrived.

The wits become more nimble.

A bottle produces the opposite effect”.

Tongeren Abbey Cloisters, Belgium.

English: Tongeren Abbey Cloisters, Belgium.

Deutsch: Kreuzgang der Liebfrauenbasilika

in Tongeren, in der Provinz Limburg (Belgien).

Photo: 11 October 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Peter Of Alexandria. Bishop And Martyr. “The Seal Of The Martyrs”. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 26 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Peter Of Alexandria.
   Bishop And Martyr.
   Feast Day 26 November.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Peter of Alexandria.

CNA file photo.

Illustration: CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

"At Alexandria," says The Roman Martyrology, "the birth in Heaven of Saint Peter, Bishop of that City, who, resplendent with The Light of Every Virtue, was beheaded by order of The Emperor Maximinus in 311 A.D."

Mass: Státuit. Of a Martyr.

THE END OF THE SANCTORAL CYCLE.

The following Text is from CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

By: Benjamin Mann.

Denver, Colorado. 25 November 2012 / 09:45 a.m. (CNA/EWTN News).- Local Commemorations of the 4th-Century A.D. Martyr, Saint Peter of Alexandria, will take place on 25 November and, also, on 26 November. Although his Feast Day in The Western Tradition (on the latter date) is no longer a part of The Roman Catholic Church’s Universal Calendar, he remains especially beloved among Catholic and Orthodox Christians of The Egyptian Coptic Tradition.

Tradition attests that the Egyptian Bishop was the last Believer to suffer death at the hands of Roman Imperial authorities for his Faith in Christ. For this reason, Saint Peter of Alexandria is known as "The Seal of The Martyrs".

He is said to have undertaken severe Penances for the sake of The Suffering Church during his lifetime, and written Letters of encouragement to those in prison, before going to his death at the close of "The Era of The Martyrs."

Both the date of Peter’s birth, and of his Ordination as a Priest, are unknown. It is clear, however, that he was chosen to lead Egypt’s main Catholic Community in 300 A.D., after the death of Saint Theonas of Alexandria.

He may have previously been in charge of Alexandria’s well-known Catechetical School, an important centre of Religious Instruction in The Early-Church. Peter’s own theological writings were cited in a later 5th-Century A.D. dispute over Christ’s Divinity and Humanity.

In 302 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian and his subordinate, Maximinus, attempted to wipe out The Church in the territories of The Roman Empire. They used their authority to destroy Church properties, imprison and torture Believers, and eventually kill those who refused to take part in pagan ceremonies. As The Bishop of Alexandria, Peter offered Spiritual Support to those who faced these penalties, encouraging them to hold to their Faith without compromise.

Saint Sylvester. Abbot. Feast Day 26 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Sylvester.

   Abbot.

   Feast Day 26 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Sylvester receives Holy Communion

from The Hand of Our Lady (see, below).

Artist: Claudio Ridolfi.

Date: 1632.

Illustration: VULTUS CHRISTI

Saint Sylvester was born of noble parentage at Osimo, in The Marches of Ancona, Italy. Owing to his rare merit, The Canons of The Cathedral of Osimo admitted him to share their dignity. When present, one day, at the funeral of an illustrious man, a relative of his, he was struck by the hideous appearance of the body of a man who had been so handsome, and exclaimed: "I am, today, what he was, and, one day, I shall be what he is" (Collect).

He immediately gave up everything (Gospel) and retired into a desert, where he devoted himself to Penance and Meditation (Introit). "Later, he built at Monte Fano," says The Roman Breviary, "a Church in honour of The Holy Father, Benedict, who advised him in a vision to Found a Religious Order, whose Rule and Habit he described to him. It was The Order of The Sylvestrines."

This Branch of The Benedictine Order spread in a short time and already numbered twenty-five Houses in Italy when its Founder died in 1267, at the age of ninety.

Mass: Os justi. (Of Abbots).
Commemoration: Saint Peter of Alexandria. (From The Collects of The Mass: Státuit).

The following Text is from VULTUS CHRISTI

Communion from The Hands of Our Lady.

The most famous Marian prodigy in his life took place when, of a night, The Blessed Virgin appeared to him in a dream and said, “Sylvester, dost thou desire to receive The Body of my Son ?”

With trepidation, he answered, “My heart is ready, Oh, Lady; let it be done unto me according to thy word.”

What I find most extraordinary is that Saint Sylvester, being a Monk already steeped in The Word of God through the familiar repetition of it in The Sacred Liturgy, answered Our Blessed Lady in two phrases already held and pondered within her Immaculate Heart.

The first phrase, taken from Psalm 107:2 — “Paratum cor meum Deus paratum cor meum” — “My heart is ready, Oh, God, my heart is ready” is the perfect act of preparation for Holy Communion.

The second phrase is Our Blessed Lady’s own acquiescence to The Mystery of The Incarnation, as recorded in Luke 1:30 — “Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum” — “Be it done to me according to thy word”. Receiving her very own words from the lips of her servant, Sylvester, The Mother of God gave him Holy Communion.

Claudio Ridolfi painted the episode in 1632.

Sainte-Cécile Cathedral. Albi, France.

Albi Cathedral,

France.

Illustration: TWITTER/STAINED GLASS ZEALOT

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,

unless stated otherwise.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Cecilia (French: Basilique Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi), also known as Albi Cathedral, is The Seat of The Catholic Archbishop of Albi.

First built in the aftermath of The Albigensian Crusade, the grim Exterior resembles a fortress, but the Interior is lavishly decorated with Art and Sculpture, a very ornate Choir Screen, and Walls in Bright Blues and Golds, in The Toulousian, or, Southern French, Gothic Style.

It was begun in 1282 and was under construction for 200 years. It is claimed to be the largest brick building in the World.[1] In 2010, the Cathedral, along with its Episcopal Buildings, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its unique Architecture and the remarkable consistency in its design.[2][3]

English: Sainte-Cécile Cathedral.

Albi, France.

Français: Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi.

Photo: 8 May 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: ByacC

(Wikimedia Commons)