Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Nicholas
Baroque cathedral with a green dome, painted ceilings and bronze doors cast with bishops and history.
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This guide to the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Ljubljana starts at its bronze south door, where six twentieth-century churchmen bend over a fallen figure. It follows one of them, Anton Vovk, the stand-in bishop left running the diocese under a Communist regime after the war, to a January day in nineteen fifty-two when he took a train to Novo Mesto to bless a church organ. Best heard standing at the south door, facing the bronze faces.
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