Tlaxcala City Cathedral Tlaxcala City Cathedral The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral () Also Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl Cathedral Is the main Catholic church in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico. It was first known as the "Temple of St. Francis of Assisi" ("Templo de San Francisco de Asís"), however, when the Diocese began to rise, it was decided to name the cathedral and as it is commonly known; Dedicated as a cathedral under the invocation of Our Lady of the Assumption during the erection of the diocese of Tlaxcala. Built in the sixteenth century between 1530 and 1536 according to Diego Muñoz Camargo,
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco ancestral parish, Grace Church, was founded in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The cathedral is the daughter of the historic Grace Church. The first little chapel was built in the gold rush year of 1849 and the imposing third church, for a time called Grace "cathedral", was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake. The family of a railroad baron and banker, William Henry Crocker, gave their ruined Nob Hill property for a diocesan cathedral, which took its name and founding congregation from the nearby parish. In 1865, Mark Twain published (in "The Californian" newspaper) purported private correspondence