32 Saint Denis in the Paris suburbs - Basilique de Saint Denis
This lovely Gothic building is very old but has only been a cathedral since the 1960s. Saint Denis was one of those unlucky early Christians who lived before Emperor Constantine had decreed that Christianity was cool. On the one hand, these Christians could boast of being the first on a trend, along the lines of the authors of those classic songs "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" , or "I was a Punk Before You Were a Punk". On the downside, the Romans were pretty good at martyring them: and Saint Denis was beheaded in the third century. We are told that nonplussed by all that, he picked up his own head and wandered off.. NB: some buried kings. Information in French Information in English Information in Occitan
