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Cathedral Of The Resurrection In Evry

48 37 '25 "N 2 25' 43" E / 48.62359, 2.428719

Cathedral of the Resurrection

Overview of the building

Local Name

Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection Corbinian

Contact

48 37 '25 "North
2 25 '43 "East / 48.623605, 2.428692

Country

France

Region

Ile-de-France

Department

Essonne

City

Evry

Worship

Roman Catholic

Type

Cathedral

Attached to

Diocese of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes

Construction begins

1992

Work Completed

1995

Architect (s)

Mario Botta

Style (s) dominating (s)

Contemporary

Website

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Location

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The Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection Corbinian is a cathedral diocesan confessional Catholic , dedicated to the Bishop of Freising Corbinian , located in the French town of Evry and the department of Essonne. Except the Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille de Lille , considered by some to be incomplete, but most started in 1854 , the cathedral of Evry is the only built in France in the ^twentieth century.

/ / Situation

Location of the Cathedral of the Resurrection in the Essonne.

As before, the cathedral was built in the heart of downtown within close proximity of the town hall , the Hall Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Essonne , near the University of Evry -Val d'Essonne , the station Evry - Courcouronnes and mall Evry 2. It is supplemented by the Diocesan House and the Monastery of the Cross and Mercy of the Dominican. An enclosed area adjacent to the cathedral is the "closed cathedral, composed of one hundred homes, six thousand five hundred square meters of office space and 1900 square feet of shops. In the center is the square John Paul II.

History

The Diocese of Corbeil-Essonnes was created on 9 October 1966 , then available from the Co-Cathedral of Saint-Spire. From 1988 , the Bishop Guy Herbulot envisaged the construction of a cathedral in downtown , preliminary sketches were presented. In 1989 , to refocus the diocesan services near the administrative center of the department whose prefecture is located in Evry , the diocese took the name of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes. The presentation of the project took place on 3 May 1990 at the Vatican and the first stone was blessed and laid on to celebrate Easter 1991 in the presence of the apostolic nuncio , but the actual construction did not begin in July next year. The foundations were completed in November , the framework consists of two concrete cylinders was completed in May 1993 and 2 October 1993 the bells were baptized, raised in 1994 along with twenty-four limes in the month of October. The cathedral was opened for worship at the Holy Tuesday 11 April 1995 at the Chrism Mass the first Sunday Mass was celebrated on Easter Sunday, April 16. On 11 December 1995 was published at 2.80 francs a stamp showing the floor plan and exterior volumes, designed by architect Mario Botta and engraved by Andr Lavergne. It was not officially inaugurated until the following year. The dedication intervened 8 May 1997 followed by the visit of Pope John Paul II on 22 August 1997 . Since 2006 , the Schola Cantorum held an organist and sixteen choristers . On 25 December 2008 was celebrated in the Cathedral Midnight Mass broadcast live on France 2 .

Description

Mario Botta , known for his achievements including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , said he was inspired by the constructions Byzantine and Romanesque of Italy from the north to the sobriety of the forms and use of raw materials used in architecture the new cathedral. The Byzantine style is reflected in the chosen form, the circle , highly symbolic , because it is the first form of human dwellings, form spontaneous aggregation of assemblies and the symbol of divine perfection, echoing the architect of St. Augustine : "God is like a circle whose circumference is everywhere and nowhere center. Another symbol, Mario Botta and usual demo here, using the brick of Toulouse for the communion of four elements (made of earth and water , dried in the air and baked in fire ).

The building adopts a plan and a cylindrical diameter of thirty-eight feet with a footprint of 1600 square meters, on deep foundations is a backbone of a double cylinder of four thousand cubic meters of concrete covered with eight hundred and forty thousand handmade bricks, its highest point facing northwest up thirty-four meters . The cylindrical shape that prevents the establishment of a true facade, the architect decided to cut the cylinder at an angle, the slope facing south-east, placing the low point of the roof to seventeen feet above the ground. The roof is pierced by two large glass staircase and a circular arc providing overhead lighting in the center of which is a metal frame triangle based on three crows. The roof is summoned by a ring of concrete, lit at night with gold and surmounted by twenty-four silver lime , symbol of life, resurrection, twenty-four hours of the day, the twelve apostles added the twelve tribes of Israel. They are planted in 1200 cubic meters of topsoil. Northwest, over a protuberance containing a staircase, is a tower supporting five bells and a metal cross, the whole weighing three tons . Three portals provide access to the cathedral, the traditional south-east, the ceremonial gate to the west, surmounted by a bridge for access to the museum and the gateway to Eastern, the last two giving walk-in aisle .

The nave occupies a cylinder of twenty-nine meters in diameter, soil placed below the main entrance, as in the old parish church Saint-Pierre -et- Saint-Paul , is covered with granite black. Access to the choir , wide and fifteen meters behind which is a stained glass symbolizing a tree is by a walkway with steps "to no ass", wide and low, informed him by twelve stained glass works Kim En Joong twelve colors , from gray to white, symbolizing the twelve apostles and the progression from darkness to light , but for the artist "a color does not correspond to an apostle in particular. You can not put a name to each window " . Above the choir, a volute hosts Delouvrier Museum and Center for Sacred Art. At the center of the choir, the altar is marble white Carrara , his foot down to the center of the crypt in which are arranged twenty-four tombs to the bishops of the diocese. To the left of the choir baptistery cylindrical, also in white marble, for baptisms by immersion, weighs nine tons. The cathedra of the bishop on the right is highlighted by a particular arrangement of bricks .

At the end of the nave, under the main entrance to the south-east is the chapel of the Day, also known as the chapel Saint-Sacrement , shape octagon , symbolizing the seven days of the week more than the Resurrection. It is illuminated by a skylight to rising behind the altar, the floor is covered with slabs of polished black granite and raw drawing a labyrinth reminiscent of Notre-Dame de Chartres. The chapel is furnished with an altar and seats in oak , it is decorated by three sculptures Gerard Garouste , a Virgin and Child in iron , a tabernacle and Christ on the cross represented by a vine vine with the inscription "I am the alpha and omega , "or I am the beginning and end .

The furniture of the cathedral was also designed by the architect Mario Botta and built in oak Burgundy. The nave is decorated with various works in the center, overlooking the altar, a tau cross of Christ receives a blackened steel one meter seventy carved in the early ^twentieth century in Tanzania and brought by a missionary , left, a Lady of the ^sixteenth century a four feet from Chaource dominates the baptistery, right, the statue of St. Corbinian in bronze ^, , the work of France and Hughes Siptrott. It is supplemented by seven tapestries recounting his life from beginning to Saint-Germain-de-Chatre , his hermitage , his consecration as bishop by Pope Gregory II , the protection of Wine , straightening of the bear, the return of his mule stolen and death . The tabernacle created by Louis Cane is in turn the symbols of Christianity, the dove , the grape , the bread and fish .

The five bells were baptized, the biggest Mario Tobia Maria Giuditta Tomaso weighs six hundred and forty kilograms and rings through Sol , the second Corbinian weighs four hundred and fifty kg and rings through the , third, Mary weighs three hundred and fifty kg and ringing in If , fourth, Antoinette Marie-Therese-de-Saint-Augustin weighs one hundred and ninety kilograms and ringing in R and the fifth-Francois Michel weighs one hundred and fifty kg and rings through Mi. The building thus achieved allows the participation of one thousand four hundred followers, with eight hundred seats.

Controversy

The main controversy surrounding this new cathedral was the theme of the interests of its construction. While a de-Christianization seemed to walk in the late ^twentieth century and the Roman Catholic Church seemed to be hiding, it seemed incongruous to build a grand new church. Added the style chosen by the architect Mario Botta , away from the usual canons of cathedrals, a circle, as opposed to the traditional cross layout.

Another divisive issue, funding for the construction of such a building, valued at ninety million francs, that rumor attributed to the State. The Ministry of Culture effectively financed to the tune of thirteen million francs to build a center of art included in the building today divided into two parts: the Museum Delouvrier and the Centre National d'Art Sacr, but the rest were distributed among the funds of the Work of Building the Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising paired up to five million francs each, the patronage of businesses and through a call to the faithful to donate four one hundred thousand attended the cathedral and being fully funded at the end of its construction.

The simultaneous construction of the mosque of Evry-Courcouronnes fueled the belief of mistrust between the two main religion thwarted today by the construction of the pagoda-Anh Khanh.

Finally, at the initiative of journalist Dominique Setzepfandt , a question arose from the resemblance of the monument with a Masonic temple by its shape column truncated and the presence of a triangle for the roof recalling the square Masonic symbols are both justified by the architect as the will to give movement to the building and the symbolism of the Holy Trinity .

For further

List of religious monuments in the Essonne

External Links

(En) Website.
(En) Unofficial site.
(En) Fact Sheet on site architecture Structurae.de.

Bibliography

F. Debruyere, new town of Evry (Essonne), in "Works", March 1992, ^No. 674.
Emma Lavigne, The Cathedral of the Resurrection in Evry, Monum. Ed. Heritage, Paris, 2000, ( ISBN 2-85822-151-0 ).
Jacques Longuet, around a cathedral, Ed. Mdiaspaul ( ISBN 978-2712205249 ).
Claude Mollard, The Cathedral of Evry, Ed. Odile Jacob ( ISBN 978-2738103833 ).
Mario Botta, the cathedral of Evry, Ed. Skira ( ISBN 978-8881186457 ).
Bruno Delamain, The Cathedral of the Resurrection in Evry First moments, Ed. Maeght ( ISBN 978-2869412699 ).
Dominique Setzepfandt , Evry Cathedral, church or temple masonic?, Ed. Facts & Records, 1997 , ( ISBN 2-909769-05-4 ).
The clear Hoer and Claude Mollard, The Cathedral of Evry, Ed. Odile Jacob, 1996.