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You are right, not all the temples in the "line" are cathedrals, which does make the entire story less credible.
by Maken 2y ago
You are right, not all the temples in the "line" are cathedrals, which does make the entire story less credible.
- jfengel 2y ago"Cathedral" is a very specific kind of church, but not necessarily all that significant. It's where they happened to have centered a local bishopric. (A cathedra is a chair, specifically one that a bishop sits in.) So there are a lot of magnificent churches that aren't cathedrals (Sagrada Familia, Westminster Abbey, St. Peter's in the Vatican), and a lot of cathedrals that are actually rather dull architecturally.
- Maken 2y agoPrecisely cathedrals are rare enough that seven of them in a line dedicated to the same archangel could no be a coincidence. I bet you can make similar lines if you look for churchess and sanctuaries dedicated to another important saint or saintess.