Saint-Claude Cathedral

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Saint-Claude Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Claude de Saint-Claude) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Saint-Claude. The town was originally named Saint-Oyand after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.^[1]

The Bishopric of Saint-Claude was created in 1742, out of the parishes in the care of the ancient Condat Abbey, established in the 5th century, around which the town of Saint-Claude had grown up. The abbey church, built in the 15th century, became the cathedral.