St. Pierre Cathedral

After a fire struck the north cathedral in the year 500, King Sigismund of Burgundy rebuilt it and asked Pope Symmachus to bring him the relics of St Peter.

[3] In the 1890s, Genevans redecorated a large, side chapel adjacent to the cathedral's man doors in a polychrome, gothic revival style.

Theodore Beza, French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar, and successor to John Calvin, was buried at St. Pierre in 1605.

[citation needed] On Whit Saturday, 30 May 2020, after nearly 485 years[4] a Catholic Mass was to be celebrated in the cathedral as a symbol of ecumenical hospitality.

On certain nights of the full moon, the cathedral sponsors "The Nocturnes de St-Pierre", an opportunity to access the towers for a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside by moonlight.

The nave of St. Pierre Cathedral