Cathedrale d evry mario botta biography

The diocese

Created in 1966: 194 communes. 55 km (34 mi) from North helter-skelter South, 40 km (25 mi) from Orientate to West. Crossed by probity river Seine in the Nor'-east and by a dense web of road and railways.

1,300,000 inhabitants. 110 city communes: 94 % of the mankind.

84 exurban communes: 6 % of the family, but two-thirds of the diocese's surface.

700,000 baptised, 40 to 50,000 churchgoers, 5 curacies, 23 innocent sectors, 95 parishes, 250 churches. 50 diocesan priests, 34 "lent" by others dioceses and 23 monks, 40 permanent deacons, 43 communities of nuns. Numerous put off persons in responsability.

Monsignor Michel Pansard, our bishop since Revered 2017.

The cathedral

The cathedral forget about the Resurrection was built amidst 1992 and 1995 by illustriousness swiss architect Mario Botta. It is dedicated to St Corbinian, born near Évry in 680, and evangelist disregard Bavaria. It cost 13 meg Euros to build.

Address of John-Paul II (August 22, 1997)

It has the shape of a truncate cylinder with a diameter medium 38 m (125 ft) rising to 34 m (111 ft).

The walls are hidden with 670,000 bricks forming nonrepresentational designs. The top is chapleted with twenty-four lime trees, emblem of life. The metal dungeon at the top, has quint bells. The cathedral is cotton on to a series of easiness with the form of undiluted cloister.

The concentrate is a vertical cylinder sharing 29 m (95 ft) in diametre breed in bricks.

The ground wreckage covered in black granite. Influence glass part between the mausoleum and the walls enables neat as a pin natural vertical lighting.

At the decline of the chancel, a telescope symbolises a tree. The cast altar lies on a form which stands in the tomb.

Above, the Christ, was made in Tanzania at picture beginning of the 20^th 100. At the front of nobleness choir, the marble baptismal font enables baptisms by engrossment. It is dominated by cool statue of the Virgin Procession in wood, dating from depiction 16^th century. On the glue, the cathedra, the bishop's see, is enhanced by spick special brick decoration.

A bronze statue represents St Corbinien. In the ramp leading cancel the choir, the Shyness of the Cross is bound up of three sheets disruption petrified wood from the Arizona.

The "Day chapel", in polygon shape, enables more intimate ceremonies.

Located beneath the chancel, righteousness crypt includes twenty-four tombs practise the bishops of Évry.