Nagasaki cathedral restores WWII-hit cathedral

The bell was blessed in a ceremony on Thursday. Pic/AFP

A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second US atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restored by a group of Americans.

The new bell was blessed and named ‘St Kateri Bell of Hope', by Peter Michiaki Nakamura, archbishop of Nagasaki, at the Urakami Cathedral in a ceremony on Thursday attended by more than 100 followers and other participants. The bell will be hung inside the cathedral, filling the empty bell tower for the first time, on August 9, the anniversary of the 1945 US bombing during WWII.

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