Strasbourg Cathedral
(France)
By: Pradeep Kumar Mallik
The site of the
Strasbourg cathedral was used for several successive religious buildings,
starting from the Argentoratum period (when a Roman sanctuary occupied the
site) up to the building that is there today. It is known that a cathedral was
erected by the bishop Saint Arbogast of the Strasbourg diocese at the end of
the seventh century, on the base of a temple dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but
nothing remains of it today.
...... Read complete article in Issue no.61 of “ITS Stamp News”
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