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The Sacred Heart of Vientian - The Cathedral of Laos
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Vientian, erected in 1928 in the time of the French Indochina, is the main church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Vientian and one of the very few Catholic temples of the Laosian capital.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- Built in 1928, with simple Neorromic lines, it has since served the small Catholic community of the capital.
- The apostolic vicariate of Vientian was configured by Pius XII in 1952.
- He welcomes Laosian, Vietnamese and foreign faithful in a country where Catholics are a very small minority.
- The Laosian Church vents its twentieth-century martyrs, missionaries and catechists beatified in 2016, seed of its present faith.
Cathedral of Vientian (Sacred Heart)
Discreet and perseverant, the Cathedral of Vientian brings together the Catholics of Laos, who entrust to the Mother of God the future of a small and proven Church.
"St. Mary, Mother of hope, pray for the Catholics of Laos.
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