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VAILANKANNI ANNUAL FEAST - 2011 starts on from 29th AUGUST

VAILANKANNI ANNUAL FEAST - 2011 starts on from 29th AUGUST


Mangalore Today News Network

Vailakanni, August 26: The ten days VAILANKANNI  ANNUAL FEAST  - 2011 commences on from 29th AUGUST  and to conclude on 8th SEPTEMBER  revealve in a press release. Those who wish to seek the blessing of ‘Our Lady of Health- Vailakanni can visit the holy place on these days.


Our Lady of Good Health, popularly called “Our Lady of Vailankanni “ is in the small town of Vailankanni  located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. It is located 150 miles south  of Chennai in Tamil Nadu and 5 miles south of Nagapttinam town. Our lady chose this place to dispense her miracles to mankind. A strong oral tradition attests to Our Lady’s apparitions at Vailankanni (Velankanni). 

 

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The tradition is built around one of the following significant incident. Something during the sixteenth century, Our Lady with her infant son appeared to a Hindu boy carrying milk to a customer’s home. While he rested under a Banyan tree near a tank (Pond), Our Lady appeared to him and asked for milk for her Son and the boy gave her some. 


On reaching the customer’s home, the boy apologized for his late and the reduced amount of milk by relating the incident that occurred on his way. On inspection, the man found the milk pot to be full and realized that something miraculous had happened.  That man also a Hindu, waiting to see the place where the apparition occurred, accompanied  the boy. When they reached the tank, Our Lady appeared once again. On leaning that it was Our Lady who appeared to the boy, the residents of the local Catholic community became ecstatic. 


The tank where the apparition took place is called ‘Matha” Kulam” or Our Lady’s tank. Today, the celebration of this feast is an annual festival which lasts for 9 days and draws more than a million and a half pilgrims. Vailankanni attracts more pilgrims than any other sacred shrine in India. Not only do multitudes of Catholic travel there throughout the year but many non Christians visit as well. 



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