Ajaccio Cathedral

Ajaccio Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio and also known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of Saint Mary, is a Roman Catholic church located in Ajaccio, Corsica. The house of God is the clerical seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseille. It is devoted to the Virgin Mary, and is in the Baroque/Mannerist structural style. The present house of prayer was worked somewhere in the range of 1577 and 1593 and is credited to Italian engineer Giacomo della Porta.

It was worked to supplant the previous Cathedral of Saint-Croix, obliterated in 1553 keeping in mind the end goal to account for improvements in the city's resistances, as expressed in the allow required by the Council of Ancients in 1559 to the Senate of Genoa and Pope Gregory XIII so as to assemble another house of prayer. The last stone was laid in 1593 by Jules Guistiniani, made cleric by Pope Sixtus V. It is the place Napoleon Bonaparte was sanctified through water on 21 July 1771 and he presented the accompanying on his deathbed in Saint Helena in 1821: "On the off chance that they prohibit my body, as they have illegal my body, deny me a little real estate parcel in which to be covered, I wish to be covered with my precursors in Ajaccio Cathedral in Corsica."