St. Joseph's Church, Beijing

This guide to St. Joseph's Church in Beijing follows the building's habit of burning down and rising again, starting with two Jesuit astronomers, Ludovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhaes, who won land from the Shunzhi Emperor to build a church here around 1655. You'll hear how an earthquake and a fire each brought it down, and how the Boxer Rebellion burned it a third time in 1900. It traces who paid to rebuild it afterward. Notice the statue of the Madonna and Child in the square outside.