1860 at 500,000 francs. Artists imported from Rome worked on the decoration of the cathedral for over ten years, while a further 160 labourers worked towards the final completion. The cathedral became the life's work of Haffreingue, it was his ambition that the church would be a meeting point for both the Catholic and Protestant communities. Remaining all his life a modest man, he erected a plaque above the gate to the cathedral reading "A Domino factum is" (tr. The work of the Lord). In 1859 in recognition of his work Pope Pius IX named him a "protonotaire apostolic" thus according him the title of Monseigneur. References External links The Cathedral of Boulogne-sur-Mer 1785 births 1871 deaths 19th-century French Roman Catholic priests