St. Michael's Cathedral is a large Catholic Cathedral in the Sakon Nakhon district of Tha Rae, the largest Catholic community in Thailand. Shaped like a boat, it is formally named St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral. Near one of the cathedral's columns, you'll see a prominent sculpture of St. Michael holding a spear, which symbolizes the vanquishing of Satan and God's triumph over evil.
The story of the creation of Saint Michael’s church is an interesting one. It was established in 1884 when a French Catholic missionary arrived with a group of newly baptised Vietnamese people, most of them slaves numbering about 150 people. The story of how they arrived in northeastern Thailand is a long, fascinating and often tragic one.