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San José de Wuhan — Hankou Catedral
The Cathedral of San José de Hankou, founded in 1876, is the seat of the Archdiocese of Hankou, in the great city of Wuhan, on the banks of the Yangtsé. Bombed in 1944, it was reopened to veneration in 1980.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- Founded in 1876, it has served for a century and a half the Catholics of the great river knot of Yangon.
- He suffered the 1944 bombing, in the war that ravaged China, and reopened its doors in 1980, following the Cultural Revolution.
- Wuhan brings together three historical temples: San José in Hankou, the Sagrada Familia in Wuchang and San Columbano in Hanyang.
- The Rosarian devotion of the province has its own seat: the cathedral of the Holy Rosary of Xiangyang, in the north of Hubei.
Catedral de Wuhan (San José)
Under the patronage of San José, the Catholics of Wuhan have seen wars, revolutions and even the pandemic that made their city famous, without letting go of the Holy Family.
Por Santa María, wife of St. Joseph, pray for the Catholics of Wuhan.
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