Saint Claude Cathedral

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Saint-Claude Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Saint-Claude. The present cathedral was previously the church of the former Condat Abbey (founded in the 5th century), which with the village that grew up round it soon acquired however the name of Saint-Oyand or Saint-Oyend after Saint Eugendus (d. 510), fourth abbot and a popular saint. In 687 Saint Claudius resigned as Bishop of Besançon and became the twelfth abbot. After he died, in 696, his grave became a very popular pilgrimage centre, to the extent that by the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" had become more used than that of "Saint-Oyand" ,which it superseded.