Hugh supported the building campaign of Salisbury Cathedral, ordering that money be collected throughout his diocese.
There is a mandate, dated 5 September 1415, to the subdean of Glasgow Cathedral, ordering the latter to protect "Thomas and his successors in possession of the lands and heredities of Innermasan, Dyrmor, Innysmocrinyl, Kykkenot, Mirtum and Nicoltum in Candida Casa [i.e. Whithorn] diocese... which are being molested".
Of course, this cathedral of order grates on people, too.
In building their cathedral of order, they wondered if they had surrendered something of their former selves: had lost the daring and self-reliance of Isak, had removed themselves from the earth, had protected themselves so well from life's vicissitudes as to drain their vitality away.
In the Clifton Fadiman universe, reducing wine to a series of tests and charts and genetic acronyms would have been like feeding a Keats sonnet into a computer and spitting out an analysis of metrics and phonemes, or grinding up Chartres Cathedral in order to weigh the stone and the glass.
The paintings were moved out of the cathedral by the order of Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian in 1891 and are now kept in various museums in Armenia, including the National Gallery of Armenia.
The earliest reference to the church tells of the transfer of Saint Michael the Warrior's relics from the Potuka fortress to the Patriarchal Cathedral on the order of Tsar Kaloyan (r. 1197 1207).
On this occasion, Camelot was identified as present-day Winchester, and his wife, Elizabeth of York, was sent to Saint Swithun's Priory (today Winchester Cathedral Priory) in order to give birth there.
It was rebuilt in the late 1990's on the spot of the previous cathedral, which Stalin ordered destroyed in 1931.
The dominance of the church in Bach's compositional output casts a sober and sanctified light on his corpus of music — and there is indeed something holy about the cathedral-like contrapuntal order of his works, whether the B-Minor Mass, an organ fugue, or a brief keyboard prelude.
Lecturing at the Royal Society, in London in the 1970s, he treated the assembled grandees to an account of the architecture of the San Marco cathedral, in Venice, in order to make the point that many seemingly adaptive features of an organism are, in fact, the byproducts of more fundamental structural constraints.
