If you've been frequenting the Badger Catholic lately, you've seen I've been posting photos from some pretty beautiful pilgrimage sites I was blessed to visit this past summer. Next on the list is the Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Carcassonne.
Carcassonne is a pretty interesting town in Southern France. It was once a stronghold for the Cathars--an interest sect of ascetic heretics from the middle ages. Like all heresies, it eventually died, and the cathedral is gorgeous.
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| Laura and I in front of the cathedral. This might be our only picture from France where nobody in the background is holding a baguette. |
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| Stunning beyond words |
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| I can't remember who, but there's a bishop buried near the alter. |
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| Pieta |
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| More of the stained glass windows |
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| Rose window |
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| A history of the local diocese |
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| St. Dominic preached here in 1213--in the midst of the Cathar heresy. |
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| Statue of St. Dominic |
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| I lit a devotional candle for my Godson Dominic |
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