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Our Lady of Kathmandu's Assumption
The Asunción Cathedral in Lalitpur (Patan), next to Kathmandu, is the only Catholic cathedral in Nepal. It was dedicated on 15 August 1995, the feast of the Assumption, by Cardinal Jozef Tomko.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The Catholic faith came to Nepal with the Capuchin missionaries, invited by the Malla kings in 1715.
- Since 2007, when Benedict XVI was erected the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal, the temple is its cathedral.
- On 23 May 2009, he suffered a bomb attack during the cult, with three dead faithful; the community responded with prayer, forgiveness and perseverance.
- Its architecture combines traditional Nepali and Western forms: it was the first formal ecclesial temple in the country.
Our Lady of the Assumption (Kathmandu)
In a nation of Hindu majority, Nepali Catholics - a few thousand - find their mother house in the Assumption: a small community, tested by persecution and sustained by the hope of Mary raised to heaven.
🙏 Our Lady of the Assumption, pray for us.
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