"from the catholic faith who originally built them."
The great cathedrals and friaries were built by the sweated labour of artisan peasants, not by any particular faith - that is what makes them so interesting - they are monuments to humanity, not to any particular God.
We've been lucky enough to be able to visit some of the beautiful temples built by heathens such as the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, equally beautiful and spectacularly skillful and equally dripping with the blood of those who actually carried the hods.
Still never come down from our visits to Abu Simbal and Philae - never made the ones in South America.
Jim Carroll