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Key information
Chapel of Saint Joseph
High altar
Saint Joseph Polychrome wooden statue
by José Ponsoda
(1882-1963)
Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was the protector of Christ in his childhood. His feast day is celebrated on March 19.
Above the high altar
Stucco
Christ protecting the Church.
Statues above the high altar
Allegories
Allegories of the Fortitude (with a helmet and a column) and the Charity (surrounded by children).
Left side
Saint Michael Archangel Polychrome wooden statue,
by Francisco Sanchis
(1740-1791)
The archangel Saint Michael, protector of the Church, is depicted as Prince of the Army of God and defeating Satan (Daniel 10,13 and 12,1) His feast day is celebrated on September 29.
On the right
Saint Pedro Pascual Polychrome wooden statue,
by Francisco Sanchis.
Saint Pedro Pascual with the canon’s habit of the 18th century.
Saint Pedro Pascual, from a Mozarabic Christian family, was born in Valencia before the conquest by James I. He belonged to the clergy of this Cathedral and to the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. Bishop of Jaen, he was captured by the Muslims and took to Granada, where he remained captive for four years until his martyrdom in 1300. His feast day is on December 6.
Pendentives of the dome
Stuccoes
Allegories of Saint Joseph:
the plane, the flowering rod, the saw and the set square for carpenters.
On the floor
Tombs
Tomb of the Archbishop López García (1824-1831) and the Cardinal Archbishop García-Gascó (1931-2011)
Text of the headstone
Agustín García-Gascó y Vicente, born in Corral de Almaguer near Toledo, was formerly Auxiliary Bishop of the Madrilenian see and, finally, he governed prudentially the Valencian Church from the year of our Lord 1992 until 2009.
He strived with determination in the education of the flock. He founded the Valencia Catholic University Saint Vicent Martyr and others institutes to instruct the people of God. Active defender of the dignity of the human life, erected the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Valencia, where he promoted and happily performed the Fifth World Meeting of the Families, presided by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI.
He was ordained Cardinal of the order of priests in the year of our Lord 2007. While he was in Roma, in the solemn beatification of John Paul II suddenly he was taken away at the age of eighty years old. Here he rests to live eternally.
