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2000 pilgrims set out to Katchatheevu for church festival

On: March 7, 2020

Rameswaram, March 7, 2020: On the occasion of the annual festival of St. Anthony’s Church in Katchatheevu, 2,570 pilgrims were sent to the island from Rameswaram by Collector K Veera Raghava Rao on Friday. The two-day festival began on March 6. According to district administration, 3,004 people, across India, hadContinue Reading

Pilgrims crowd church where Teresa once prayed

By: Matters India

On: August 18, 2016

In: International

Letnica: The thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the bright white Church of the Black Madonna this year were hoping to receive the gift of grace that one of its most famous parishioners once experienced. A formerly thriving Croat village reduced to only 300 people since the Yugoslav Wars ofContinue Reading