CATHÉDRALE SAINT-PIERRE & SAINT-PAUL DE SAINT-CLAUDE

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Place de l'Abbaye, 39200 Saint-Claude, SAINT-CLAUDE, FRANCE

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Historic Religious Building

The present cathedral was previously the church of the former Condat Abbey, which with the village that grew up round it soon acquired however the name of Saint-Oyand or Saint-Oyend after Saint Eugendus, fourth abbot and a popular saint. In 687 Saint Claudius resigned as Bishop of Besançon and became the twelfth abbot. After he died, in 696, his grave became a very popular pilgrimage centre, to the extent that by the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" had become more used than that of "Saint-Oyand" ,which it superseded.

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CATHÉDRALE SAINT-PIERRE & SAINT-PAUL DE SAINT-CLAUDE

Place de l'Abbaye
39200 Saint-Claude,
District: SAINT-CLAUDE, FRANCE

Tel: +33(0)3 84 45 34 24

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CATHÉDRALE SAINT-PIERRE & SAINT-PAUL DE SAINT-CLAUDE, Place de l'Abbaye, 39200 Saint-Claude, District: SAINT-CLAUDE, FRANCE

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