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Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Montpellier

St. Peter's Cathedral is the main place of Catholic worship in Montpellier. The church, the seat of the bishop of Montpellier, is a historic monument of France since 1906. The Basilica of Saint Peter was originally the chapel of the Monastère-Collège Saint-Benoît Saint-Germain, founded in 1364 by Pope Urban V. The church was erected to the cathedral in 1536, when the bishop's seat was transferred from Maguelone to Montpellier, and consisted of a single nave with five camps and 14 side chapels. During the wars of religion the cathedral became the target of Protestant attacks. On October 20, 1561, after a siege, the crowd entered a hole in the cathedral where some Catholics had fled and massacred them. The church was thus stolen first; then again in 1562, when bells and iron railings were deprived, used to fabricate ammunition with which to resist the siege of the city by Catholics; still in 1567, when Protestant attacks caused the collapse of a tower, followed by the collapse of the entire building. King Louis XIII wanted to reconstruct the cathedral immediately. The cathedral was enlarged in the nineteenth century. The works began in 1855 under the supervision of architect Henri Révoil, to end in 1875.

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