Basilica Holy-Clotilde (Rheims)
See also: Basilica Holy-Clotilde
The basilica Holy-Clotilde of Rheims was high in 1898 by the architect rémois Alphonse Gosset (1835 - 1914) for the fourteenth centenary of the baptism of the king Clovis. Placed under the term of Holy Clotilde, this building of style Byzantine - in the shape of Greek cross and overcome of a cupola - pays homage to the wife of Clovis which was at the origin of the conversion of the king of the Francs.
Built at the instigation of the cardinal Benoit-Marie Langénieux then archbishop of Rheims, this basilica was to be that of the saints and holy of France. He requested for that all the dioceses which offered relics of the saints having marked the French history. Those were deposited in the crypt where accumulated a hundred and twenty reliquaries and more than two thousand relics.
The basilica Holy-Clotilde was one of the places of commemoration of the fifteenth centenary of the baptism of Clovis in 1996 in the presence of the pope Jean-Paul II.
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