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
The Wedding at Cana have exchanged their social status, and so Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and some of his Apostles, are seated in the place of honour of the centre-span of the banquet table, whilst the bride and bridegroom sit, as guests, at the far end of the table's right wing. Above the Jesus figure, a carver is carving a lamb, beneath the Jesus figure, musicians play lively music, yet, before them is an hourglass — a reference to the futility of human vanity. Moreover, despite the kitchen's continuing preparation of roasted meat, the main course of a celebratory meal, the wedding guests are