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Ntra. Ms. del Perpetuo Socorro de Treichville (Abiyán)
In the popular district of Treichville the church of Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours, open to veneration on 7 October 1956, rises. It is one of the oldest parishes in the Archdiocese of Abiyan, born of the Catholic mission founded in the neighborhood in the 1930s.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The church was blessed on October 7, 1956 - the feast of the Virgin of the Rosary - by Monsignor Dieudonné Yougbaré.
- His history begins in the Catholic mission of Treichville, created in 1935-1936, with Father Paul Rey as first superior.
- The missionary André Lombardet of the African Missions designed a very vast church to welcome the crowds of the workers' neighborhood.
- Today it belongs to the episcopal vicariate Bernard Cardinal Yago of the Archdiocese of Abiyan; its great courtyard can host more than two thousand faithful.
Perpetual Socorro (Treichville)
Under the icon of the Mother of the Perpetual Relief, Treichville has been praying since 1956: a church designed for the crowds, a witness to the growth of the Marfiestra Church.
"Mother of the Perpetual Help, help your children of Ivory Coast."
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