St. Emmeram's Cathedral, Nitra


St. Emmeram's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Nitra, Slovakia. The entire cathedral is housed in the Nitra Castle precinct, much like Prague Castle.
It was originally built in the Gothic style and is composed of many parts. The upper church dates from 1333–1355. The rotunda dates back to the 11th–12th century and houses a silver reliquary made in 1674. Another reliquary in the cathedral houses some relics of Saint Cyril. The lower church was built between 1621–1642. Later, the entire cathedral complex was remodelled in the Baroque style.
Saint Emmeram of Regensburg, to whom the cathedral is dedicated, was an itinerant bishop who did missionary work from the court of the duke of Bavaria, Theodo I.

Description

Pulpit
The pulpit is part of the solid Baroque interior decoration that was commissioned by Bishop László Ádám Erdődy in the first decades of the 18th century. It was built by the left pillar of the triumphal arch with a stone stairway leading up from the chancel. Its red, green and white marbleized surface and gilt stucco decoration matches the walls and the altars. The iconography is fairly simple with three white cherubs on the abat-voix and the Eye of Providence between clouds.