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Hospital that can be found enclosed by Daomao Road, Fengqi Road (凤起路), and East Huancheng Road (环城东路). While the hospital buildings are still in use as such, the chapel has not been used for religious purposes since before the Cultural Revolution and instead is now used by the hospital as a hall for
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the cathedral was put to other uses for a period of about 12 years. The main church hall was divided into 10 or more smaller cells for imprisoning criminals. The other church buildings were also divided up as residences. Finally in 1982 the cathedral reopened, and on December 12 of that year, Mass
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and Prosper Intorcetta, and they therefore became the object of great veneration. During the Cultural Revolution the site was completely destroyed, but was fully restored in 1985, although by that time it was no longer known which bones exactly had belonged to Martino Martini. The cemetery is now
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Chinese masses are held every Sunday morning. 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:30am and 7:00pm. A large congregation attend and can overflow into the car park for the 8:30am service. There is an English mass held on Saturday evenings at 6:30pm. The church has two choirs which practice regularly, and also holds
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temple by the name of Tiānhòu Gōng (天后宫, Temple of the Celestial Empress), but only after the emperor had chiseled his father Kangxi's "敕建" inscription off the gateway. Later, in 1848, it came into the possession of a group of English, Dutch, and French
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notes in his "Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine", were based on standard Western imagery (the conversion of St. Paul, the conversion of the emperor Constantine, etc.), but were painted by Chinese artists in the Chinese brush style.
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in June 1661, and was buried in the Dafangjing Jesuit Cemetery (大方井卫匡国等公墓) on the north side of Beigao Feng (北高峰). His remains were found to be undecayed as late as 20 years after his death, as attested by both Belgian Jesuit
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giving presentations. A statue of Sr. Hacard has since been erected in the middle of a nearby garden and the chapel, being the only Gothic structure in all of Hangzhou, is today protected as a Provincial Historic Site.
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chapel which, with the one exception of a Marian statue it once contained, survived the Cultural Revolution remarkably intact, stained-glass windows and all. Sr. Hacard's hospital is now part of the Hangzhou City
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was once again celebrated. By 1986 all the families that had moved in during the Cultural Revolution were relocated off of the property. The cathedral is now protected as a Municipal Historic Site.
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Hangzhou is also home to the gravesite of Martino Martini. After the cathedral had just barely been completed, the renowned cartographer, historian, and missionary died suddenly of
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of Hangzhou, located at the intersection of today's Hubin 湖滨 and Qingchun 庆春 roads). None of these two churches or the gates and city walls they once stood by remain today however.
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began to build a hospital compound on Hangzhou's Daomao Road (刀茅巷). It was founded in 1922 and gradually added to until 1928. The site also included a
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to complete the repairs. He also had the two characters "敕建" (chìjiàn, "built by order of the emperor") inscribed upon the church gate.
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In the 1920s Hangzhou was also the object of some French missionary activity when a nun named Sister Hacard from the
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again forbade the practice of Catholicism, and the church edifice was subsequently converted into a
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located in an old historic building on the slopes of Mt. Wu not far from Wushan Square (吴山广场).
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ever in Hangzhou. One of the new converts in Hangzhou was a wealthy Imperial Inspector named
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, N. Zhongshan Rd, 仓桥社区, 310003 Zhejiang, China
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The Catholic Church in Hangzhou also includes a nuns' convent dedicated to the
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The rectangular memorial crypt faces west and is preceded by a Chinese style "
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Statue of Sr. Hacard near the chapel of her Sisters of Charity Hospital
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Road North (中山北路415号) not far from Wulin Square (武林广场) in downtown
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The current cathedral in Hangzhou, dedicated to Our Lady of the
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official-scholar and Catholic from Hangzhou working in
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30°16′11″N 120°09′45″E / 30.269846°N 120.16259°E / 30.269846; 120.16259
China
Denomination
Roman Catholic
Martino Martini
Dedication
Architect(s)
Romanesque architecture
Archdiocese
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hangzhou
Chinese
pinyin
Roman Catholic
cathedral
Zhongshan
Hangzhou
Li Zhizao
Ming dynasty
Beijing
Matteo Ricci
Nanjing
Lazaro Cattaneo
Nicolas Trigault
Mass
Yang Tingyun
Buddhist
Xu Guangqi
Shanghai
Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism

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