Saint-Knud cathedral of Odense
The cathedral Saint-Knud (in Danish: Odense Domkirke or Sct. Knuds Kirke ) bears the name of the Danish king Knud the Saint (in Danish: Knud den Hellige). King Knut the saint was not however historically a true saint, he y' has a specific reason for this nickname.
By fleeing a revolt, the king found refuge in the church of Saint-alban, a wood church located at Odense. Revolted, which did not want to let it flee, the tuere inside the church. The history tells that he died knelt requesting in front of the furnace bridge, troutefois its remainders, which are always visible, do not seem to confirm crtte version. King Knud at summer struck in bottom of its abdomen by a lance whereas it faced an attacker, and more certainly at summer killed by a blow with the head which fractured cranium to him. Killed in a church by subject revolted, he was declared holy in 1101, mainly for political reasons, and this contrary to the wills of his half-brother and successor, Oluf the famine.
The Saint-Knud cathedral at summer built in mêmoire of its death, but not completely at the same place where was held the original church. The oldest parts of the cathedral go back to the beginning of XIIIéme century.
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