Ajaccio Cathedral

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Notre Dame de l'Assomption Cathedral or Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral is located in the new Genoese city district. The cathedral is also dedicated to Saint Euphrase, holder of the first cathedral of Ajaccio and Saint Francis Xavier. The construction of the large work was completed in 1593; It is linked to the diocese of Ajaccio. Napoleon I was baptized there on 21 June 1771. The cathedral was classified as historical monuments in 1906.

History: The organization of local Christian churches in the early Middle Ages is unknown. Athanasus of Alexandria writes in 358 that Corsican bishops supported him in his struggle against arianism, but without precision on their seat.

The present cathedral was preceded by several others, which were to be raised on another site, in an old quarter, about 2 km from the city built by the Genoese. The discovery in 2005 on the site of a former tobacco factory decommissioned from a paleo-Christian Baptistery in this neighborhood, at the place called Saint John, San Giovanni, seems to confirm this thesis. A Baptistery is associated with a cathedral group but it was not...