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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:20:13 GMT -5
This is probably (other than Saint Peters Basilica in Rome) one of my favorite Cathedrals. It is beautiful. -- The desire to have a Cathedral in Madrid was first shown in 1567 by King Felipe II who was responsible for bringing the court to Madrid in 1561 and making it the capital of Spain. For the good of Spain. However, at this time the Escorial was being constructed which took precedence over the new cathedral project. In the end it was Felipe III who recieved permission , and the funding of 650.000 ducados, from Rome, more than annoying the then all-powerful Archdioces of Toledo.
The project moved along at a snail's pace and as time (and monarchs) passed, Felipe IV and his wife doña Isabel de Borbón moved forward with the idea of building a catheral linked to the parochia of Santa María de la Almudena. Finally in 1624, conditions were set and the cathedral planned out. Juan Gómez de Mora and Pedro Lizargárate were comissioned to take charge of the temple cathedral. That same year Felipe IV gave the project a huge step forward by getting the Town Hall of Madrid to contribute 200.000 ducados to the project.
The project was nipped in the bud shortly after due to influences from th eArchdioces of Toledo and it was not until 1738 that the then King Alfonso XII who would act as the principal advocate for the completion of the Real Catedral de Santa María de la Almudena next to the Palacio Real during the second half of the 19th century.
Another obstacle which slowed the completion of the project was the Revolution of 1868 leading up to the Alfonsine Restauration in 1875. In 1885, the same year that Alfonso XII would die, the Madrid-Alcalá diocesis became a reality and the Cathedral of Santa María de la Almudena of Madrid becomes the result of a long and complex process to bring both a dioces and cathedral to the Spanish capital. The neo-gothic cathedral as we know it today was directed by Marqués de Cubas and completed in 1885. The model pictured above was considered in it's day that of the "ideal christian temple". It was a feat of incredible magnitude that took over 300 years to be born from the day of it's conception in the mind of Felipe II in 1567. The cathedral was only just inaugurated as the Almudena Cathedral in 1993.
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:24:28 GMT -5
Structural Type: Gothic vault Function: Church Location: Madrid, Madrid (Spain) Built: 1883 - 1993 Status: completed Near: Palacio Real
Persons Involved: architect Fernando Chueca-Goitia architect Marques de Cubas architect Miguel de Olavaria architect Luis Mosteiro architect Juan Moya architect Enrique Repullés y Vargas architect Carlos Sidro
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:28:05 GMT -5
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:29:41 GMT -5
Photos taken by Nicolas Janberg
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:31:48 GMT -5
Photos taken by Nicolas Janberg
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:32:54 GMT -5
Photos taken by Nicolas Janberg
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:34:15 GMT -5
Photos taken by Nicolas Janberg
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:37:39 GMT -5
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Post by Chanel on Aug 28, 2003 13:41:11 GMT -5
The Organ at the end of the Nave of the Cathedral.
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Post by Xicamaluca on Sept 2, 2003 3:31:46 GMT -5
An article from El Mundo (the translation isn't that good ) "THE OTHER CHRONICLE | THE ALMUDENA Closed by lack of fiancèe WHILE THERE IS parishes in Madrid where they do not give date to marry until 2004, the Almudena is inoperativa for the fiancès to the delay of its blue prince, Don Felipe, that it does not have engaged nor it is expected to him. It is a right situation? JOSE MANUEL VIDAL Everything practically was prepared in the Almudena for the married connection of Don Felipe with Eva Sannum. It was going to be the first wedding in the cathedral of Madrid. Sometimes, it gives the sensation of which the Madrilenian cathedral was sad and cried because in his ships it does not sound to the weeping of the children when baptizing itself nor the nuptial march. In their vestibules, the fiancès do not become photos and the guests throw rice to them neither flowers nor confeti ", says a canon of the cathedral town hall. The Almudena cries because in her three sacraments are only celebrated: eucaristía, confession and sacerdotal arrangement. It cries the Almudena and it hopes to that the Prince is decided and opened his doors to the celebration of the weddings of the common one of the mortals. But why it is necessary to hope the Prince to celebrate weddings there, asked to Sunday last Jaime Peñafiel in these pages, in his Blue and pink section? The recent insolvent occasion still remembers the cathedral. Months ago he was all ready one. The séquito of the wedding of the Prince would leave from the contiguous Real Palace and, between halberdiers, it would enter the cathedral are of the music of his organ of stone and with a red carpet with the arms of the Prince and the cardinal. Rouco would marry Varela, accompanied of the military archbishop and chaplain of the King, monsignor Estepa, and of the Nuncio of Its Sanctity in Spain, monsignor Monteiro de Castro. Diverse rituals like the one of the mixed marriage were predicted even, due to the protestant religion of the then fiancèe, Eva Sannum. The liturgistas of the Madrilenian Archdiocese, directed by Brown Andrés, had thought an elegant, sober and deeply religious ceremony. Elena and Cristina had been documented in the previous connections of infants, celebrated in the cathedrals of Seville and Barcelona. And they wanted to surpass them, if he were possible, conscious of the mediatic repercussion of the rite in Spain and anywhere in the world. An exceptional showcase for the liturgistas, the neocathedral and the own cardinal of Madrid. In the last moment, the Almudena remained compound and without fiancè. And it does not seem that the situation is going to change in the mid term. The Prince, after her rupture with Eva Sannum, friend formal.Sí, however, new intrascendentes flirteos, the last one with a French, physically similar to other loves does not know itself him and you bind previous of Don Felipe. An atypical case the one of the Madrilenian cathedral between the seats catedralicias.Primero, to be during as much unfinished time. Later, by it to have inaugurated the very same Juan Pablo II. Thirdly, because nobody can be baptized nor be married in her. In all the other Spanish cathedrals (there are 76 cathedrals, nine concatedrales and 18 colegiatas) marriages are celebrated. In the one of the neighboring Diocese of Alcala de Henares there are three weddings Fridays and three Saturdays and the agenda she is filled until 2004. And the same, with the shades of a greater or smaller of marriageable age population, it happens in the rest of Spain. In the one of Majorca no longer there are dates. Either in Zaragoza. And that that the capital maña is, with Salamanca, Plasencia and Jaén, the only one that count on two cathedrals: the Pillar and the Seo. In the Pillar they are celebrated five weddings each weekend. Altogether, more than 200 to the year. To that there is to add 100 of the Seo. Some cathedrals have reserved a chapel in the interior of the own temple or in a contiguous place. In Santiago de Compostela, for example, the parish of the cathedral is called the Corticela and many pairs of Galicia keep tail to marry just next to the apostle. The cathedrals are the temples that more connections celebrate. Except The Almudena. Why it follows closed the married public? In Madrilenian ecclesiastical circles nobody puts in doubt that the cathedral waited for the Prínce
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Post by Chanel on Sept 2, 2003 19:06:38 GMT -5
Your right,
The translation was not all that great. However thank you for posting it... Thank You very much. What is the article saying?
Thank You
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Post by xicamaluca on Sept 3, 2003 5:17:32 GMT -5
Hi Basicly, the article says that is unfair that that marriages couldn't be celebrate in the cathedral just because it's wainting for Felipe marriage. You, in Almudena only the daily mess is alowed . It's a very healty cathedral, but where marriages aren't allowed, when the waiting list for get marriade in Madrid is almost 4 years
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Post by xicamaluca on Sept 3, 2003 5:28:37 GMT -5
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Post by Chanel on Sept 3, 2003 21:19:18 GMT -5
Thank You for the full photo of the Cathedral. It is different, but, so beautiful. Perfect for a Crown Princley wedding...
However. It is sad that people have to wait 4 years in Madrid to get married. Is that jut to get into a Cathedral or into La Alemeduna (sp) alone? Or can people not get married until HRH Don Felipe does? WOW, that is another sad thing. Why so?
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Post by xicamaluca on Sept 4, 2003 5:59:05 GMT -5
4 years is the average years to get a weeding date in any of Madrid churches and cathedrals .So couples are marring outside of Madrid. Marriages aren't allowed in Almudena until Felipe gets married, because they need to have the book free to any date that he wants. He must marry that cathedral, because is next to the royal palace and because is the biggest to recieve all the guests to a royal weeding
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