Measuring up to St Peter
Our Cathedral receives its honourable mention on the nave floor of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, where its length is listed as 110 metres - interestingly enough, just a hair's breath longer than Haghia Sophia, mentioned next to it. Which provides a good excuse to show the mosaic of said Haghia Sophia from St Andrew's Chapel - recording the legend that St Andrew was first bishop of Constantinople (or Byzantium, as it was called in his day). It's a fine design of the Great Church and the imperial city (for more information, cf here and here).
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We'll be there next month when we go with the choir to sing Dvorak's Requiem.
HEY! That picture in St. Peter's looks "vaguely" familiar. I shall be awaiting credit for my fabulous photography skills...JH
Supposedly, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who at the time was the leading and most powerful churhman in America, was in St Peters with Pope John XXIII observing all the world's cathedral lengths on the floor. Spellman could not find his cathedral, St Patrick's. Pope John replied, "We did not put in the marker. It would have been the smallest one!"
Hi Jude - it's all my own work, taken last October!!
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