The Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède Tarbes is located in the Hautes-Pyrenees.
Its name is derived from the Latin "sede" meaning "seat": the cathedral is indeed the Catholic place of worship where officiates a bishop whom he reserved a chair called the cathedra...
The building historical monument in 1906 was built in the twelfth century on an already occupied site during the Gallo-Roman who then hosted a Merovingian cemetery.
The twelfth century, it remains two apses at the choir. From the fourteenth century, in fact, the cathedral was with a Gothic nave and the eighteenth, a new expansion has enabled the realization of an outer span.
If it has a solid appearance even austere from the outside, the cathedral houses within a few gems: the case of the chapel dedicated to the Virgin, gilded altarpiece installed south of the nave or the great Baroque canopy marble floor overlooking the main altar.
In the cathedral are buried several former bishops like Bishop Laurence, who recognized the apparitions at Lourdes in the nineteenth century or Théas Bishop who, during the war of 1939-1945, opposed the German occupation in denouncing the persecution victims were Jews (then Bishop of Montauban) then appointed Tarbes, built the underground basilica of Lourdes for the centenary of the apparitions in 1958.
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