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Morning Star Church for Our Lady of Vailankanni (Velankanni)
Catholic church with contemporary & traditional architectural features & white interior & exterior
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health is located at the small town of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The Roman Catholic Latin Rite Basilica is devoted to Our Lady of Good Health. Devotion to Our Lady of Good Health of Velankanni can be traced to the mid-16th century and is attributed to three miracles at sites around where the Basilica stands: the apparition of Mary and the Christ Child to a slumbering shepherd boy, the curing of a lame buttermilk vendor, and the rescue of Portuguese sailors from a violent sea storm. These accounts are based on oral tradition and there are no written or attested records in support of them. The Holy See has not approved these apparitions.
The chapel was finally built by Portuguese sailors. More than 500 years later, the nine-day festival and celebration is still observed and draws nearly 2 million pilgrims each year. The Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni, also known as the Lourdes of the East, is one of the most-frequented religious sites in India.
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Morning Star Church for Our Lady of Vailankanni (Velankanni)
Catholic church with contemporary & traditional architectural features & white interior & exterior
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health is located at the small town of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The Roman Catholic Latin Rite Basilica is devoted to Our Lady of Good Health. Devotion to Our Lady of Good Health of Velankanni can be traced to the mid-16th century and is attributed to three miracles at sites around where the Basilica stands: the apparition of Mary and the Christ Child to a slumbering shepherd boy, the curing of a lame buttermilk vendor, and the rescue of Portuguese sailors from a violent sea storm. These accounts are based on oral tradition and there are no written or attested records in support of them. The Holy See has not approved these apparitions.
The chapel was finally built by Portuguese sailors. More than 500 years later, the nine-day festival and celebration is still observed and draws nearly 2 million pilgrims each year. The Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni, also known as the Lourdes of the East, is one of the most-frequented religious sites in India.
Velankanni Church
Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health
Location: Velankanni, Tamil Nadu, India
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Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health Exterior - Vailankanni (Velankanni)
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health located at Vailankanni (aka Velankanni) in Tamil Nadu, India.
This was taken during our India Summer Vacation Trip in 2011
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Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health | Velankanni Church
This video features the outside view of Velankanni church near Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu state of India. Velankanni church is a popular pilgrim center dedicated to Our Lady of Health. For more details click -
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Velankanni Morning Star Church Inner View Video
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Morning Star Church Velankanni
Hi Friends, Here is the video of one of the World's Largest Church in Velankanni of Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu called Morning Star Church.
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Morning Star Church newly built when we are going to madha kulam right side is there at vellankanni. Fantastic place
Velankanni Trip | Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health |
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health is located at the small town of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The Roman Catholic Latin Rite Basilica is devoted to Our Lady of Good Health. Devotion to Our Lady of Good Health of Velankanni can be traced to the mid-16th century and is attributed to three miracles at sites around where the Basilica stands: the apparition of Mary and the Christ Child to a slumbering shepherd boy, the curing of a lame buttermilk vendor, and the rescue of Portuguese sailors from a violent sea storm. These accounts are based on oral tradition and there are no written or attested records in support of them. The Holy See has not approved these apparitions.
The chapel was finally built by Portuguese sailors. More than 500 years later, the nine-day festival and celebration is still observed and draws nearly 2 million pilgrims each year. The Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni, also known as the Lourdes of the East, is one of the most-frequented religious sites in India.
Morning Star Church Velankanni
Morning Star Church Velankanni.
Video showing the Velankanni Arogyamatha Church. Recently opened this new church of Mother Mary,every morning at 9 am the Malayalam Holy Mass commences here. You can have a two nights and one day trip to velenakanni. Every weekend at about 6pm on every friday a number Travel Tour operators conducting this trip from kerala with a very minimal cost. They offering the up and down travel,food and separate room for each family. Food will be in Kerala style. If you start Friday evening they serve you vegetarian meal at night and you may reach around 6 am at Velankanni they offer a tea then you can refresh in your rooms,then 8am break fast you can attend the Malayalam Holy mass at 9 am. After that you can go for the special offerings and prayers. Then 1pm come back to the room you can have your fish curry meals. Then take rest til 4 pm you will get tea then go for evening Novena in the church in between if you are interested can go to the beach and shopping too. 7pm dinner and 8 pm on Saturday you will start back from Velankanni. And Sunday morning you will be back home. You can take rest at home as it is a Sunday. Then Monday morning onward back to your normal routine life with Mother Mary's Blessings. Thank you for watching my videos,please Share and SUBSCRIBE too. Thank You.
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Morning Star Church Velankanni
Video Showing the Morning star Church Velankanni. Daily 9 am Malayalam mass will be here. Recently opened this new church since then malayalam mass started here.
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Velankanni Church
one of the religious sites, is situated on the Bay of Bengal coast. The holy shrine was constructed in the memory of the Lady of Health, also known as the Madonna of Velankanni. She was renowned among the people for possessing miraculous powers. Dedicated to Virgin Mary and the Heavenly Mother, this church is popular as a Sacred Arogya Matha Church.
According to the manuscripts, Mother Mary once visited this shrine with Jesus in the 16th or early 17th century. It is also said that Mary appeared in the dreams of Father Arulappa and expressed her desire of having a church in her name. For constructing the same, Arulappa along with J.P Dsouza, an engineer, finally established an Annai Velankanni Church at the site.
Housing a 97 feet Belfry, the church was started in 1971 and was opened in 1972. Offerings are made to God in the form of different shapes of candles, such as in case of jaundice, a liver shaped candle is offered. The preservation centre at the church exhibits small golden or silver replicas of the organs that have been presented to God after the disease has been cured.
Representing a Gothic style of architecture, the building of the church is painted white, while the roof is covered with red tiles. The church organises Holy masses in eight languages namely, English, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Konkani and Marathi.
The local people state that the Goddess performed three miracles at different sites, which provided a platform for construction of the Basilica. The premises of the church witnessed the appearance of Mary with the baby Christ, the rescue of the Portuguese sailors from the dangerous sea and curing a lame buttermilk vendor.
After the safe landing of the Portuguese sailors, they constructed a chapel whose annual feast is organised in the month of September as Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Morning Star Church
Can seat 10,000 and some 40,000 people can also participate in the services by standing outside the newly built Morning Star Church - making it the largest church in India.
The 60,000 square feet church is 120 ft wide and 500 feet long and 40 feet high. It also has 150 feet tall towers.
Its altar area has three separate portions: on the left side is the Bible stand, on the right side is the space for reading the Bible, and the central portion of alter.
The paintings and carvings on the 20-feet long and 3.5 feet wide altar include images of ‘Last Supper’, ‘the Host and Wine’, ‘Virgin Mary of Velankanni’, ‘Five Bread and Two Fish’, wheat kernels and grapes and finally the alpha and omega symbols.
Our Lady's Tank
Approximately 400 years ago, there was a small pond and on its bank was a huge banyan tree. A shepherd boy from Vailankanni used to carry milk everyday to a rich man in Nagapattinam which is ten kilometers away. On an unusually hot summer day, the boy, after quenching his thirst with the water from the pond, rested for a while in the shade of the banyan tree which stood beside the pond. Soon the boy fell into a deep slumber.
Suddenly he was startled by the vision of a Lady of celestial beauty holding a lovely child in her arms. The boy could not take his eyes off the Lady of unmatched beauty, so spell bound was he by this heavenly vision. The Lady greeted him with a motherly smile and condescended to ask him for some milk for her child. He joyfully gave her some milk for her child and seeing a bewitching smile spread over the face of the heavenly baby, the boy experienced deep satisfaction.
When he reached the home of the rich man he begged to be excused for his unusual delay and for the shortage of milk. But, when the lid of the milk pot was lifted, lo and behold!, the pot was brimming over with milk. The boy narrated to the rich man about the apparition he had of a Lady of uncommon beauty with a cherubic child and how he had given a portion of the milk he was carrying, to the child at the Lady’s request. He said that he had the unique pleasure of seeing that supernatural Lady feed the baby with the milk he had given. The master was fascinated by the extraordinary phenomenon witnessed by the boy and he hastened to the spot where the Lady had appeared with her child. With great reverence, the gentleman prostrated himself on the holy ground where the Lady had appeared to the boy.
The story of the apparition of the Lady and Child and the miraculous brimming over of the milk, spread like wild fire throughout the neighbourhood. The Christians in Nagapattinam were convinced that the vision was that of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Their hearts overflowed with joy at the thought of Our Blessed Mother deigning to choose such an unobtrusive place as Vailankanni to make her apparition. From that day onwards the tank has come to be known as ‘Matha Kulam’ (Our Lady’s Tank). Innumerable miracles are taking place even today by applying it on diseased persons. A chapel now stands at the place where Mary appeared to the boy.
NOVENA PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF HEALTH | NOVENA PRAYER TO VAILANKANNI
NOVENA PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF HEALTH |
NOVENA PRAYER TO VAILANKANNI :
O most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most Adorable Trinity from all eternity to be most pure Mother of Jesus. Permit me your humble and devoted client, to remind you of the joy you received at the instance of the most sacred incarnation of our Divine Lord, and during the nine months you carried Him in your chaste womb. I wish most sincerely that I could renew, or even increase that joy by the fervor of my prayers.
O tender Mother of the afflicted! Grant me under my present necessities that special protection you have promised to those who devoutly commemorate this ineffable joy. Relying on the infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting that those who ask should receive and penetrated with confidence in your powerful prayers, I most humbly entreat you to intercede for me, I beg you to obtain for me the favors which I petition for in this novena, if it be the Holy will of God to grant them; and if not, to ask for me whatever graces I most stand in need of.
(Here specify your requests)
I desire by this novena which I now offer in your honor, to prove the lively confidence I have in your intercession Accept it I beseech you, in honor of that supernatural Love and Joy, with which your Immaculate Heart replenished during the abode of your Divine Son in your womb, in veneration of which, I offer you the sentiments of my heart.
(Repeat the Hail Mary nine times)
O Mother of God, accept these salutations in union with the respect and veneration with which he Angel Gabriel first hailed you “Full of Grace”, I wish mot sincerely that they may become so many gems in the crown of your Heavenly glory, which will increase in brightness to the end of the world.
I beseech you, O Comfortress of the afflicted, by the joy you received, when the Word was made Flesh, to obtain for me the Favors and Graces, which I have now implored through your powerful intercession. For this end I offer you all the good works, which have ever been performed in your honor, I most humbly entreat you, for the love of the amiable heart of Jesus, with which yours was ever so inflamed, to hear my humble prayers and obtain my requests. Amen.
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Morning Star Church Velankanni, Tamil Nadu
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Our Lady of Vailankanni Festival 2013
Our Lady of Vailankanni Festival 2013 was celebrated at Fremont, CA. There were 400 participated