Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (VM)
Pics Dayanand Kukkaje, Sphoorti Ullal, Geekay, Satish Ira, Rajesh Shetty and RK Durga Digitals

Mangalore, Sep 8: Children love this feast because of the colourful flowers, the sweets, the sugarcane and the joy in every ceremony which cannot be found in any other feast. With the same motivation, thousands of children, dressed in their best offered flowers to infant Mary on her feast.

from St Francis Xavier Church, Bijai

Mangaloreans celebrated the feast of Nativity of Mother Mary with great religious fervour.

The churches wore a colourful look and every child and even few adults joined in offering flowers to Mother Mary.

from Our Lady of Dolours church, Udupi (Pics RK Durga Digitals)

A pleasant morning that it was, the first corn was blessed and brought in procession singing the traditional hymn “Let's all get together.”

from St Sebastian Church, Bendur

The smiles on the faces of the little ones while receiving their share of juicy sugarcane cannot be expressed with words.

With the blessed corn and sugarcane every family returned home to share the family meal.

That’s that Mangalorean spirit of Montifest!

Also see:

• Montifest Pictures: Kinnigoli, Mundkur and Narampady
• Montifest Pictures: Karkala, Attur, Kanajar, Nakre and Hirgan
• Mangalore: Montifest Pictures from - Rosary Cathedral, Milagres, Kulshekar, Jeppu and Urwa
• Mangalore: Montifest Pics - Tannirbavi, Vamanjoor, Nithyadharnagar, Ranipura, Loreto and Ukkinadka