Christ Church Cathedral
Norman and Gothic cathedral chapel holding the rebuilt medieval shrine of a Saxon princess saint.
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This guide to Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford follows Catherine Dammartin, a former nun from Metz who married the Protestant scholar Peter Martyr Vermigli and came to live in these cloisters in the fifteen-fifties. It moves through the reigns of Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, a heresy commission, a cardinal's order and a dean's stable. Stand in the Bell Chapel in the north aisle, beside the medieval shrine of Oxford's patron saint, Frideswide.
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