Elijah (oratorio) thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art'. Notwithstanding the work's triumph, Mendelssohn revised his oratorio wholesale before another group of performances in London in April 1847 - one (23 April) in the presence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The German version was first performed on the composer's birthday, 3 February 1848, in Leipzig, a few months after Mendelssohn's death, under the baton of the composer Niels Wilhelm Gade. Mendelssohn uses biblical episodes relating to Elijah, which in the original, :19 and , are narrated in rather laconic form, to produce intensely dramatic scenes, by adding several
St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, Abeokuta Society of the Mission. It was elevated to cathedral status in 1997. 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