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The Bishopric of Antibes was established c.450 by Pope Leo I, the first two bishops being Armentarius and Agroecius. [2] Presumably it was around this time that the cathedral was first built, and indeed the altar in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament has been dated to the Merovingian era .
Antibes (/ ɒ̃ ˈ t iː b /, [3] [4] US also / ɑː n ˈ t iː b z /, [5] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Antíbol) is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat to the northeast, is one of the best known landforms in the area.
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In the 10th century, Antibes was under constant threat of attack by the Saracens, who maintained a permanent fortified settlement near Fraxinetum, near Saint-Tropez. In about 974 (sources vary regarding the exact date), the Saracens were defeated and driven from Provence by William I of Provence , who subsequently rewarded the knights who ...
[1] [2] The château was seized by the revolutionary authorities during the French Revolution and was converted for use as a town hall. [3] In the early 1820s, the local military authorities decided that they needed the château for use as barracks. [4] Civic leaders therefore decided to commission a purpose-built town hall.
Cathedral of Antibes (Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea) Grasse Cathedral (Notre-Dame-du-Puy) The former French Catholic diocese of Grasse was founded in the 4th or 5th century as the diocese of Antibes. [1] It was originally suffragan to the Archbishop of Aix, and then to the Archbishop of Embrun. [2] The see moved from Antibes to Grasse in 1244.
Emperor Tu Duc enjoyed the longest reign of any monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty, ruling from 1848 to 1883. [1] Although he had 104 wives and concubines, he was unable to father a son (possibly he became sterile after contracting smallpox). Thus, it fell to him to write his own epitaph on the deeds of his reign.
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