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Full facade (Photo: Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption)

By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register, August 6, 2024

Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. …..

Covington, Kentucky, cathedral-basilica honors the Blessed Mother and her solemnity — and its interior and exterior reflect some famous Paris churches.

Flying buttresses. Vibrant stained glass.

One grand basilica may look iconic and French — but it’s in Kentucky.

The Diocese of Covington is home to an outstanding treasure of the Church — St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption. It has an exterior modeled after Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, complete with flying buttresses and tympanum over the entries, just as Bishop Camillus Paul Maes, the third bishop, wanted it done when he hired Detroit architect Leon Coquard to design the new cathedral in 1892. …

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