Cathedral of Saint Domnius

The Cathedral of Saint Domnius acknowledged regionally as the Sveti Dujam or colloquially Sveti Duje, is the Catholic cathedral in Split, Croatia. The cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Split-Makarska, headed with the aid of Archbishop Marin Barisic. The Cathedral of St. Domnius is a complex of a church, shaped from an Imperial Roman mausoleum, with a bell tower; strictly the church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and the bell tower to Saint Domnius.

Together they form the Cathedral of St. Domnius. The cathedral turned into named after Saint Domnius purchaser saint of Split, who was a 3rd-century Bishop of Salona. Salona changed into a large Roman town serving as capital of the Province of Dalmatia. Today it's miles positioned close to the town of Solin in Croatia. Saint Domnius become martyred with seven other Christians inside the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian. He was born in Antioch, in contemporary-day Turkey, and beheaded in 304 at Salona.