Alfonso I of Asturias, surnamed the Catholic, restored a great many churches; Alfonso II, the Chaste, founded the Diocese of Oviedo and built its first cathedral and the royal burial-place. The Dioceses of Pamplona and Sasave corresponded to the nascent Kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, while ...
The Cappella Paolina is regarded as the parish church, and is thus one of the churches of Rome where the Forty Hours’ Adoration is inaugurated at the beginning of each ecclesiastical year. By the Bull, “Ad sacram ordinis”, of October 15, 1497, the ancient custom of selecting the ...