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    Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Agatha (Italian: Cattedrale metropolitana di Sant'Agata), usually known as the Catania Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Catania), is...
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    Saint Agatha in Catania is a major festival in the region, it takes place during the first five days of February. The Catania Cathedral (also known as...
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    Catania (/kəˈtɑːniə/, also UK: /-ˈteɪn-/, US: /-ˈtæn-/; Sicilian and Italian: [kaˈtaːnja] ) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo...
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    Louis, King of Sicily (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    crowned in the cathedral of Palermo on 15 September and thereafter he bore the title of king (rex). After his coronation, Louis lived at Catania from October...
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  • square in Catania, Italy, flanked by both the centers of civic (city hall at Palazzo degli Elefanti) and religious power (Duomo or Cathedral of Saint Agatha)...
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    The Amphitheatre of Catania is a Roman amphitheatre in Catania, Sicily, Southern Italy, built in the Roman Imperial period, probably in the 2nd century...
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    flower") from Amina's final aria is inscribed on Bellini's tomb in the Catania Cathedral in Sicily. Returning to Milan after the I Capuleti e i Montecchi performances...
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    Vincenzo Bellini (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    transferred to Catania, that did not take place until 1876, when the casket containing his remains was taken to the cathedral in Catania and reburied....
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    Frederick the Simple (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    great-grandfather, King Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick III was born in Catania and succeeded to his brother Louis in 1355 under the regency of his sister...
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    Frederick III of Sicily (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    Charles's sons Robert and Philip landed in Sicily, but after capturing Catania were defeated by Frederick, Philip being taken prisoner (1299), while several...
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    The University of Catania (Italian: Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university...
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    city, Catania, was the most damaged of all the larger cities in 1693, with only the medieval Castello Ursino and three tribunes of the cathedral remaining;...
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    and adjacent to where the present Catania Cathedral. That site was razed to create the spaces around the cathedral, and the university moved to different...
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    Motta Sant'Anastasia, Norman tower (Dongione) Caronia, Norman castle Catania Cathedral Ponte dei Saraceni (Norman bridge), Adrano Ponte Calatrasi (Norman...
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    Maria, Queen of Sicily (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    and Duchess of Athens and Neopatria from 1377 until her death. Born in Catania, Maria was the daughter and heir of Frederick the Simple by his first wife...
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    Giardino Bellini (category Catania)
    Bellini; English translation: "Bellini Garden") is the oldest urban park of Catania. It occupies 70.942 m². Before the construction of a public garden, the...
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    circa 777, the church served as Catania's cathedral for eight centuries, until replaced by the new Sant'Agata Cathedral at the eastern edge of the city...
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    in 1669, when the lava buried numerous villages reaching the sea near Catania, with a flow up to 17 km long. This eruption completely changed the landscape...
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    February 20, 2022 "St. Leo of Catania", Archdiocese of Baltimore "St.Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily", Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St.John the Baptist, Washington...
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  • Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    Constance died in Catania, Sicily, either from the plague, or following childbirth complications. She is buried in the Cathedral of Catania. Archbishop Pierre...
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    the piazza of the same name in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The complex, two blocks east of the Catania Cathedral, spans a polygonal block encompassed...
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  • Peter of Aragon (heir of Sicily) (category Burials at Catania Cathedral)
    next year in Lentini from the plague. Peter was buried at Cathedral of St Agatha, Catania beside his grandparents, Frederick III the Simple and Constance...
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    Badia di Sant'Agata (category Roman Catholic churches in Catania)
    of Catania, region of Sicily, Southern Italy. The Baroque style church facade is across the street from the left transept of the Cathedral of Catania. This...
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    (Sicilian: A fest' 'i sant'Àjita) is the most important religious festival of Catania, Sicily, commemorating the life of the city's patron saint, Agatha of Sicily...
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    Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini is a city square in the historic center of Catania, region of Sicily, Italy; it is remarkable for being ringed by 32 columns,...
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  • Catholic diocese of Catania active. 902 CE – Catania "sacked by the Saracens" during the Muslim conquest of Sicily. 1090 – Catania Cathedral founded. 1169 –...
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    of the order in his place. He was buried at Catania Cathedral and also commemorated at Cortona Cathedral, with the latter holding a cenotaph in his memory...
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    facade of Syracuse Cathedral (destroyed in the 1693 earthquake) and Antonello Gagini's grandiose marble 'tribuna' in Palermo Cathedral (destroyed at the...
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    Christ: "it is finished". His relics were later translated to the Catania Cathedral in May 1904. Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster – future Blessed...
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    of Catania and killed eighteen thousand people. Only a part of the cathedral and one house survived. Another earthquake struck the ruins of Catania at...
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