In the morning the family went to Our Lady of Snows basilica. The name derives from a miracle in early Christian Rome where a miraculous snowfall in August was a sign from the Virgin Mary.
We left Tuticorin at noon and stopped at a nearby beach.
We then went to a basilica at Veerapandian Pattinam.
The family in the basilica
The family at the church
The frailest member of the family getting herself across the spot where Jesus had appeared
We continued to visit churches long after night fall. We went to Manapad and visited a church and a nearby cave where St. Francis Xavier had stayed in 1542.
We then continued on to another place where an early church had been destroyed and forgotten under a covering of red sand, only to have been rediscovered later and put back into active use.
The rediscovered old church
We continued on to Uvari, where we visited a Catholic church of Our Lady of Health built on the shore in 1974. The bottom of the church is shaped like a ship and the top like an airplane.
The church at Uvari (photo from Wikipedia)
We then visited the nearby Church of Saint Anthony, the last church of the day, before proceeding on to Kanyakumari at 10:45 pm.
The last church of the day
The Basilica of Our Lady of Snows
The family in the basilica
We left Tuticorin at noon and stopped at a nearby beach.
The beach
The basilica
The family in the basilica
Later in the afternoon we went to a big Hindu temple of Murugan along the seashore at Tiruchendur. The lane approaching the temple was lined with shops selling a remarkable range of plastic junk.
The temple
The family at the seashore
A shop near the temple
At sunset we arrived at a basilica in Tiruchendur where Jesus had appeared to restore a lost child to its parents. In the center of the church, marking the spot where Jesus had appeared, is an open space filled with sand in the otherwise tiled floor, which the family members all walked across.
The family at the church
The frailest member of the family getting herself across the spot where Jesus had appeared
The family at another chapel there
We continued to visit churches long after night fall. We went to Manapad and visited a church and a nearby cave where St. Francis Xavier had stayed in 1542.
We then continued on to another place where an early church had been destroyed and forgotten under a covering of red sand, only to have been rediscovered later and put back into active use.
The rediscovered old church
We continued on to Uvari, where we visited a Catholic church of Our Lady of Health built on the shore in 1974. The bottom of the church is shaped like a ship and the top like an airplane.
The church at Uvari (photo from Wikipedia)
We then visited the nearby Church of Saint Anthony, the last church of the day, before proceeding on to Kanyakumari at 10:45 pm.
The last church of the day
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