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Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Port Cathedral
Religious building, Listed or registered (CNMHS), Historic site and monument
in Saint-Pierre
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First chapel of the Dominicans, then church of Mouillage from 1694, it becomes parish church, under the name of Notre-Dame-Du-Bon-Port. It was rebuilt in 1667 thanks to the financial support of the buccaneers and sailors following the naval battle between the French and the English in the harbour. With the creation of the bishopric of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France, which closely followed the abolition of slavery, the church became a cathedral in 1853, after the arrival of the first bishop...
First chapel of the Dominicans, then church of Mouillage from 1694, it becomes parish church, under the name of Notre-Dame-Du-Bon-Port. It was rebuilt in 1667 thanks to the financial support of the buccaneers and sailors following the naval battle between the French and the English in the harbour. With the creation of the bishopric of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France, which closely followed the abolition of slavery, the church became a cathedral in 1853, after the arrival of the first bishop of Martinique, Mgr. Le Herpeur.
Destroyed in 1902, its reconstruction, at the initiative of Victor Depaz, was undertaken in 1923 from the facade that was spared, but it has, inside, only a distant resemblance with the previous one.
The bishops who died at Saint-Pierre are buried in three cellars under the main altar: Mgr Le Herpeur in 1858, Mgr Porchez in 1860 and Mgr Tanoux in 1899.
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