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Agen
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and comprises various overseas islands and territories which are located in other regions. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. At 674,843 square kilometers, France is the world's 40th-largest country after Myanmar. France is a member of The European Union and Paris is the capital of this nation. The sole official language of France is French. Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions.
Agen is a town and commune located in the Aquitaine region in southern France, on the river Garonne, 84 miles southeast of Bordeaux. It is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne departement. The twelfth century cathedral of Agen, St. Caprais, is one of the barest handfuls of large churches in France with a double nave, curious and impractical plan may be a regional trait, since one of the others is the Church of the Jacobins in relatively nearby Toulouse. Agen is connected by the A62 motorway to both Toulouse and Bordeaux. By train it is around an hour from Toulouse, and around an hour from Bordeaux. It has a very small airport mostly used for business flights and leisure flying.
In historical part the city has diocese comprises the departement of Lot and Garonne. It has been successively suffragan to the archdioceses of Bordeaux under the old regime, Toulouse, and Bordeaux again since 1822. Legends which do not antedate the ninth century concerning the hermit, St. Caprasius, martyred with St. Fides by Dacianus, Prefect of the Gauls, during the persecution of Diocletian, and the story of Vincentius, a Christian sacrifice, furnish no foundation for later traditions which make these two saints early bishops of Agen.
The first bishop of Agen known to history is St. Phoebadius, friend of St. Hilary, who published in a treatise against the Arians and figured prominently at the Council of Rimini in 359. The diocese of Agen comprised 278,740 inhabitants, 47 first class parishes, 397 second class parishes, and 27 vicariates, formerly with State subventions. Today, one can also learn about its history, from its earliest times and can also enjoy its natural beauty concealed by the beautiful landscapes.
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