San José de Guiyang — La Catedral de Guizhou
The Cathedral of San José de Guiyang, popularly called "Church of the North," is the seat of the Archdiocese of Guizhou. His history began in 1798, with a first chapel founded by Chinese priest Lorenzo Hu Shi-lu, destroyed in the persecution of 1811.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The first chapel was founded in 1798 by a Chinese priest, Lorenzo Hu Shi-lu, a pioneer of faith in Guizhou; the persecution of 1811 destroyed it.
- The Apostolic Vicariate of Guiyang was erected in 1846, and the cathedral was dedicated in April 1850.
- It burned on December 2, 1875 and was rebuilt in 1876 in the local architectural style of Guizhou, which makes it unique among Chinese cathedrals.
- Damaged in August 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, it was restored in 2004; since 2014 the guide Archbishop Paul Xiao Zejiang.
Catedral de Guiyaya (San José)
With two centuries of fires, persecutions and reconstructions, the Cathedral of San José bears witness to the tenacious faith of the Catholics of the mountains of Guizhou, entrusted to the custodian of the Holy Family and to his wife the Virgin Mary.
- Santa Maria, wife of St. Joseph, pray for the Church in China.
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