About the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Fructus in Segovia, Spain:
The name is a bit of a mouthful, so most simply refer to it as “The Segovia Cathedral”. The Cathedral took over 50 years to build and was dedicated on July 16. 1768, the last Gothic church to be built in Spain.
There are 21 chapels inside the Cathedral. Among the most prominent chapels are that of the Santísimo Sacramento, with a Reredo by José de Churriguera, the Chapel of San Andrés, with a Triptych of the Deposition by Ambrosius Benson, the Chapel of Piety with the Entombment by Juan de Juni; and the chapel of the Deposition with the recumbent Christ by Gregorio Fernández.
About Saint Fructus:
Not one of the better-known Saints, Saint Fructus was born in the 7th century to a noble family of Segovia. Fructus and his two siblings sold their family possessions after their parents’ death and gave the earnings to poor. Wishing to escape from the city and the turbulent times, they became hermits and settled on the rocky terrain near the village of Sepulveda (now known as the Hoces del Duratón) where they lived apart from one another in caves that ensured them complete solitude.
Tradition holds that Valentine and Engratia were later martyred around 715 AD by advancing Moorish forces, and that Fructus died of natural causes in the same year at the age of 73.
We celebrate the Feast of Saint Fructus on October 25.
Traveling to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Fructus in Segovia, Spain:
Address: C. Marqués del Arco, 1, 40001 Segovia, Spain
Tel +34 921 46 22 05
Click here for the official website of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Segovia, Spain.