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Catholic places of interest in India
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Catholic places of interest in India
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According to tradition, there have been multiple apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Velankanni, also known as Our Lady of Good Health. As tradition would have it, the first of many apparitions occured to a young boy who was delivering buttermilk. More Information Official site The Real Presence Miracle Hunter MaryPages Link Link Link Author’s Note An Indonesian parish of the same name also has a good history of the apparition....
According to tradition, Our Lady appeared to a few shepherd children at Kuravilangad as they were tending their flock. She asked them to build a church at the place from where a miraculous perpetual spring sprouted, which exists even today. The children reported this matter to the elders and a church was built there. More Information Official site The Real Presence Miracle Hunter MaryPages Link (Search “Kuravilangad”)
St. Joseph Vaz was a priest form Goa, India, who became a missionary in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), preaching to the abandoned Catholics in a largely Buddhist country. This shrine is located in the city of his birth. More Information Official site Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate biography