Vieille Major

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The Old Major is the former cathedral of Marseille. It was built from the 12th century on the site of a first church dating from the 5th century.

Implementing Christianity in Marseilles: The ancient city of Marseille consisted of a high city with the Acropolis and a low city. The rediscovery of the remains of the ramparts that defended the city against the legions of Caesar showed that the city had an area greater than 50 hectares. The city of Marseille had contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean, therefore with the early Christians, as shown by the discovery of an epitaph at FORTVNATVS and VOLVSIANVS with a Christian symbol that suffered the torture of fire dating from the 2nd century. The church of Marseilles had to begin to exist in the second century. Oresius was the first certain bishop, quoted in documents when he participated in the Council of Arles in 314. At the beginning of the 5th century, the Bishop of Marseilles Proculus opposed Aix-en-Provence about the implantation of the metropolitan siege which had become the metropolis of the second Narbonnaise, and to Arles whose primacy in 417 Pope Zosime had made of the Viennese and the two...