Saturday, August 31, 2019

Latin Cathedral, Lviv - Ukraine

Here comes another card sent by Ana. She says Ukraine is lovely and quite different compared to other countries. I've only been to Kiev a couple of hours a few years ago. Didn't get to see much of the city because of the weather but the thing I remember the most is the people and how friendly everybody was. 
This card is from Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country.

© photo by Yurko Dyachyshyn
The Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, usually called simply the Latin Cathedral,is a 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral, located in the city's Old Town.
In 1360, the king Casimir III of Poland founded the construction of the present day church, built in Gothic style, for a cathedral of the newly created Latin diocese. Construction work continued throughout the 15th century and in 1481 the Cathedral was finally consecrated.
The Latin Cathedral is one of the just two churches in Lviv that weren't closed or subjected to the Muscovite Patriarchate during Soviet rule (the other being the Roman Catholic church of St. Anthony in Lychakiv), however during that time the bishops resided in Lubaczów, a town in southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. In 1991 Pope John Paul II reactivated the diocese. - in: wikipedia

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