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Cathedral of Xalapa

Xalapa

Originally of baroque style, the Cathedral of Xalapa suffered transformations over the years, adopting other styles such as neoclassical, neo-gothic and gothic, which you can find in its interiors and in the chapel where the remains of Bishop Rafael Guizar y Valencia, who was canonized in the early twenty-first century.

In it, there is also a museum where you can see the relics of the now saint, which are attributed to actions such as disguising himself as a salesman to help the dying during the Mexican Revolution and the miracle of curing a child that would be born with malformations detected in clinical studies, something that finally did not happen, because the mother said she had prayed to the bishop.

Originally of baroque style, the Cathedral of Xalapa suffered transformations over the years, adopting other styles such as neoclassical, neo-gothic and gothic, which you can find in its interiors and in the chapel where the remains of Bishop Rafael Guizar y Valencia, who was canonized in the early twenty-first century.

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