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HAND EMBROIDERED
VESTMENTS FROM SLOVAKIA
ROMAN CATHOLIC
CATHEDRAL OF ST. EGIDIUS IN BARDEJOV
National Historic Monument
The first written document from 1247 mentions that originally there was a monastery church in the place of today's St. Egidius cathedral. The construction started in 14th century as a three ships cathedral with simple arcades. In 1448-1458 Bardejov's builder master Mikulas finished the sanctuary and sacristy and a chapel of St. Katarina above-the king's
oratorium. Soon after, static problems occurred and the innovative construction of the chapel's vault collapsed.
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The same year a king's master builder
Stefan was called from Košice to built a new vaulted ceiling. The cathedral was finally finished at the end of the
15th century and work on furnishing the interior has begun. Most valuable part of the interior, eleven unique wing altars are preserved basically in their original places from years' 1460-1520. During the fire and earthquake in 1725 the tower collapsed and in 1878 another fire was reason to complete reconstruction of the cathedral in the spirit of then neo-gothic principles.
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VESTMENTS FROM SLOVAKIA
Published in the Slovak
Heritage Live newsletter Volume 3, No. 2, Summer 1995
Copyright © Vladimir Linder 1995
3804 Yale Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5C 1P6
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