Oratorio credited with writing the first English language oratorio, "Esther". Handel's imitators included the Italian Lidarti who was employed by the Amsterdam Jewish community to compose a Hebrew version of "Esther". Britain continued to look to Germany for its composers of oratorio. The Birmingham Festival commissioned various oratorios including Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in 1846, later performed in German as "Elias". German composer Georg Vierling is noted for modernizing the secular oratorio form. John Stainer's "The Crucifixion" (1887) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies. Edward Elgar tried to revive the genre around the turn of century with the composition
St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, Abeokuta St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, Abeokuta The St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and serves as the cathedral of Abeokuta, a city in the west African country of Nigeria, Ogun State capital, located on the river of the same name. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of the Diocese of Abeokuta ("Dioecesis Abeokutanus") which was created in 1997 by the bull "Cum ad aeternam" of the Pope John Paul II. The first Mass was celebrated on June 29, 1880, by the Fathers of the