• The Cathedral of Our Lady or Dutch Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedraal in Antwerp is the cathedral church of the diocese of Antwerp.
  • It was inaugurated on November 21, 1988, and is located in the district of Cidade Alta in Natal, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
  • On November 25, 1961, the church was declared a Cathedral and the Seat of the Diocese of Imus, with Nuestra Señora del Pilar as its titular Patroness.
  • For this reason, in the mid-15th century the Cathedral feast was moved to Febrary 2nd, that is the feast of The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, or Candlemas.
  • The present Romanesque church stands on the site of several older cathedral buildings, but itself dates from the 12th-13th centuries.
  • The white-pink temple was built in 1814 in honor of the victory over the Napoleonic troops, and this was the second birth of the Church of the Presentation of the...
  • Mr F Glennie, a Catholic architect, presented a plan which, while renovating the Cathedral, preserved its essential character and left it St Mary’s.
  • The first thing that struck you as you approached the Cathedral of Our Lady in the heart of Antwerp's historic old town is the immense size of the church, dwarfing...
  • The Church of Our Lady became the main Cathedral of Copenhagen in 1924 - and was appointed as Denmark's National Cathedral.