Condom

Condom grew beside the Baïse around the abbey of Saint Peter. In 1317 Pope John XXII made the abbey church a cathedral and established a bishopric separate from Agen. The church was rebuilt from 1506, with a broad nave and chapels between its buttresses. In 1569 Protestant troops under Montgomery seized the town and plundered the cathedral, bringing the Wars of Religion into the heart of the episcopal city.