Wedding Church at Cana Wedding Church at Cana The Wedding Church at Cana () or simply Wedding Church, also Franciscan Wedding Church, is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the central part of the town of Kafr Kanna (Cana), in the Lower Galilee in northern Israel. It is dedicated to weddings. Its name commemorates an event from the Christian Gospel of John, known as The Wedding at Cana, during which Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. The Church is owned by the Custody of the Holy Land, part of the Franciscan order in the
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