Ntra. Mrs. de la Asunción de Libreville - The Santa Maria Cathedral of Gabon
The Libreville Cathedral, known as Sainte- Marie, is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and is the seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese that heads the ecclesiastical province of all of Gabon. St. John Paul II visited her in February 1982 and called her "high place" in Gabonese history.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The seat was elevated to the Metropolitan Archdiocese in 1958; its origins go back to the Apostolic prefecture of the Two Guinean, created in 1842.
- In this place of the Sainte- Marie mission, Father Jean- Rémi Bessieux celebrated on September 29, 1844 the first mass on Gabonese soil; his grave is venerated before the temple.
- St. John Paul II visited Libreville in February 1982 and entrusted the ministry of the Gabonese clergy to the Virgin Mary in the cathedral itself.
- El templo actual data de 1958 y se levanta sobre el emplazamiento del antiguo Fort d’Aumale, primer puesto francés en Gabón.
Assumption of Libreville
Cuna of the first Mass held in Gabon and the seat of its Metropolitan Church, the Cathedral of the Assumption unites the missionary memory of Monsignor Bassieux with the blessing of the visit of St. John Paul II.
- Our Lady of the Assumption, pray for the Church of Gabon.
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