CHRISTIAN
FESTIVALS
 There are
several Christian festival in Tamil Nadu. The
most important one is the Velankanni festival to virgin
Mary. It is celebrated for ten days from the August 28 to September 10 every year and draws vast crowds of Catholics,
other Christians
and even members of other religions from all over India and from
Malaysia across the seas.
Prayers to Virgin Mary are believed to be very effective of
miraculous healing powers. Thousands of
pilgrims belonging the various castes and communities flock daily to this
"Lourdes of the East". Some times offering are sent in sealed bottles
or big hollow bamboos duly closed and thrown in to the sea
with the address of the shrine written on them. Such offerings are
said to reach the holy spot from where they are taken and deposited in the
church museum.
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