Our Lady of Guadalupe in Belize
The mother church of Belize is the cathedral of the Holy Redeemer of Belize City (1858), the oldest Catholic parish in the country, and the Marian face of the diocese is the co-cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Belmopan, the capital. Both share the seat of the diocese of Belize City- Belmopán.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The cathedral of the Holy Redeemer was born as a wooden chapel in 1852; after a fire it was reconstructed in brick (1858), largely from the ballast of the wooden sailboats, and has resisted numerous hurricanes.
- It was raised to cathedral in 1894; St. John Paul II visited it in 1983, during the first papal visit to the country.
- Since the late 1940s, the annual procession of the Virgin of Guadalupe has been held, calling for protection against hurricanes, a legacy of the processions started in 1879.
- The co-cathedral of Guadalupe places the new capital under the patronage of the Morenita, Patroness of the Americas proclaimed by Pius XII in 1945.
Guadalupe en Belice
In Belize the national Marian devotion revolves around the Virgin of Guadalupe: co-cathedral in the capital, annual procession against hurricanes and the protection of the Patron of the Americas over the younger Central American country.
"Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, covers the people of Belize with your mantle.
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