150 Churches in Paris and elsewhere

Copenhagen cathedral, aka Church of Our Lady (Vor Frue Kirke), is chunky, neoclassical and Lutheran. The Lutherans left the Catholic Church around 1521 accompanied by the Edict of Worms (which, unsurprisingly, had no connection with creepy crawlies). The Lutherans, like the Catholics, claim to stand in the true tradition of the apostles. After the previous cathedral had been destroyed by the bombs of the British Navy, the new church was finished in the late 1820s and is so blooming apostolic that it has statues of the full set of twelve apostles around the aisles, including the ones you had forgotten. I have never seen all twelve inside a church before. Now, they decided, fair enough, that Judas Iscariot should not get a statue, for obvious reasons, but they didn’t want an odd number, so St Paul is in there too, although he was not an apostle (cos was busy in his job as a Pharisee). On the altar is a statue of Jesus, labelled « Come to me », and as you arrive at the church...

Marseilles Cathedral- lots of mosaics and domes Byzantine and neo-romanesque cathedral (lots of mosaics and domes and different coloured stone from Italy, Tunisia and France), opened by Napoleon the third in the second half of the 19th century. It is one of very few 19th century cathedrals in the country. Extremely imaginative recent crucifix in blue, fabulous fancy canopy on the altar, banjo playing gilded angel, complicated traditional crib at Christmas. Saint Eugène de Mazenode has his tomb here, so you know where to come to invoke the chap.