St. Olav's Catholic Cathedral
Neo-Gothic red-brick Catholic cathedral from 1856, holding a relic said to be Saint Olav's arm.
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This guide to St. Olav's Catholic Cathedral in Oslo follows the money behind a red-brick church opened in August 1856 for a parish of barely sixty Catholics. It asks who pays for a church when its own flock cannot, and turns to Queen Josephine of Sweden and Norway, whose gifts reached from an altar painting to a royal petition for a saint's relic. Best heard from the street, looking up at the tower.
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