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The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught crowd of onlookers watched. [1] For the next forty years, the San Salvador Cathedral was a barren concrete structure of exposed bricks and jutting iron buttresses.
San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 00:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador: [1] St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Chalatenango; Cathedral-Basilica of Queen of Peace in San Miguel; Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour in San Salvador; Cathedral of St. Vincent in San Vicente; Cathedral of St. Ann in Santa Ana; Cathedral of St. James the Apostle in ...
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Savior (Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador) is the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador and the seat of the Archbishop of San Salvador. The church was twice visited by Pope John Paul II, who said that the cathedral was "intimately allied with the joys and hopes of the ...
His cathedra is in Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, otherwise the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador). The city also has a former cathedral, now the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ( Spanish : Basílica del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús ), and a minor basilica dedicated to the Virgin of ...
Catedral de San Felipe Apóstol (Cathedral of St. Philip the Apostle), ... Bar La Praviana, San Salvador, 1940s ... Colegio La Salle, Latacunga; Colegio San Gabriel ...
The most well-known figure in the El Salvadoran church's history is Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero. On March 24, 1980, during the civil war in El Salvador he was assassinated while saying Mass because of his positions regarding the government and demands to the end of the violence in the nation.
The church occupies the angle between the south arm of the cathedral transept and a side of the cloister. It was built during the 9th century as a palace chapel for King Alfonso II of Asturias and the church of San Salvador of Oviedo. Apart from acting as royal chapel, the Holy Chamber was built to house the jewels and relics of the cathedral ...