page_title: Gravelbourg
section_title: Former Catholic bishopric
hierarchical_section_title: Gravelbourg / Churches / Former Catholic bishopric
caption_attribution_description: English: La Cathédrale is a Municipal Heritage Property in the town of Gravelbourg, SK. It was built in AD 1918-1919 and is a French Canadian Catholic Cathedral (Gravelbourg being a predominantly French Canadian town). The interior of the church features unique paintings completed by Fr. Charles Mallard, a French-born priest who served as the cathedral's first pastor. He used people of Gravelbourg as models for his figures.
context_page_description: Gravelbourg is a small multicultural town in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located just west of the Wood River at the junction of provincial Highway 43 and Highway 58, approximately 125 kilometres from Moose Jaw, Swift Current, and the United States border. The region served as a path for First Nations peoples many years ago, and was also integrated into the Redcoat Trail of the 19th century. Gravelbourg is now a key link on the 21st century Trans Canada Trail.
  Gravelbourg is also referenced in the fourth verse of the North American version of "I've Been Everywhere", written by Geoff Mack and made popular in North America by Hank Snow and more recently Johnny Cash.
context_section_description: The town was from 1930 to 1998 the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gravelbourg headed by a Francophone bishop. In 1998, Pope John Paul II suppressed the residential diocese, so that it is now a titular see. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption was at that time designated a "co-cathedral" of the Archdiocese of Regina.
caption: Interior of the Cathedral
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