7 sentences with 'cathedral'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cathedral and other words derived from it.
• « The two forms of educational institutions available were tutorials offered within monasteries and schools associated with cathedrals. Both were obviously part of the Church, and cathedral schools in particular focused on the training of future priests. »
• « Although they offered basic education to the laity, the official focus of the cathedral schools was the training of priests. They began to expand after 1000 CE, offering a more focused and rigorous grounding in sacred texts and, to some extent, ancient texts from Rome, to help educate Church leaders and laity. »
• « Thus, priests in training who were fortunate enough to attend one of the best cathedral schools acquired a strong command of classical Latin and were aware of the high intellectual standards that had flourished in Rome's glory days. »
• « For generations, Florence's cathedral had remained unfinished, its main tower having been built too large and too tall for any architect to complete. Literally no one knew how to build a free-standing stone dome at the top of a tower over 350 feet high. »
• « Catherine the Great also forced the Ottomans to agree to the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in Constantinople and the 'protection' of Orthodox Christians in Ottoman lands, a massive intrusion on Ottoman sovereignty over their own subjects. »
• « The tower, the bell tower of the cathedral of Pisa, was completed in 1350 and was problematic from the start. »
• « Radiating out from the cathedral is Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, with its narrow, pedestrian-only streets, its gesticulating gargoyles and, carved in stone, the coats of arms that crown the doorways. »