Frankfurt Germany
Philip traveled also with his sister Mariamnne and she also preached the good news. As they traveled through Syria and Myzia they suffered much persecution and were stoned and jailed. When they met up with the apostle John and traveled together to the village of Phrygia. As they traveled through the city of Hieropolis in modern Turkey they came upon people that were worshiping a huge snake as their god and they prayed for the people and the snake died and many miracles were said to happen while they were there.
He later traveled to Armenia where he ministered to the king’s daughter and she was healed. The king, his wife and family and many others believed and were baptized but the King’s brother and the priests conspired against him. They arrested him and had him hung upside down on a cross. Even from the cross, he would not stop preaching. So they used other methods to kill the apostle they say that he was flayed and beheaded. He died in AD 68 in what is now Derbend west of the Caspian Sea. The believers there placed his body in a leaden coffin and buried him there. They were moved in 578 when the Persians took control of the city and several times after that, and it is said that his skullcap is held at the church today.
Saint Bartholomew’s is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. It is not technically a Cathedral at all because it was never the church of a bishop but it is called one anyway since the time of the 18th century because of its importance in the crowning of the kings.
The church was originally constructed in the 1300’s and it was built on the foundation four other ancient churches, the earliest being the Merovingian time period (in the year 680). This was during the reign of Clovis IV the Franks.
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- Charles V
- Ferdinand I
- Maximilian II
- Rudolph V
- Mathias
- Ferdinand II
- Ferdinand III
- Leopold I
- Joseph I
- Charles VI
- Charles VII
- Francis I
- Joseph II
- Leopold I
- Francis II
During WWII, the old town of Frankfurt, the biggest old Gothic town in Central Europe was devastated by 6 bombings from the Allied Air Forces. The greatest losses occurred on March 22, 1944, when more than a thousand buildings of the old town were destroyed The cathedral suffered severe damage, the interior of the church was completely destroyed. The building was reconstructed in the 1950’s. The present church is the fifth church on the same site.
To see the church go to:
Dom St. Bartholomäus
Domplatz 1
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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