Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins

This guide to Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins asks why its facade looks three centuries younger than the Gothic nave behind it, tracing the church's construction through the 1500s, a royal wedding held here in 1533 between the future Henry II and Catherine de Medici, and its survival of the Revolution that flattened other Marseille churches nearby. For seventy-four years afterward this church stood without a proper front, until a new facade finally went up in 1875. Behind the doors, the relics of the medieval bishop Saint Louis of Toulouse still rest where they were kept safe.