M'lore: Milagres Church Celebrates Monti Fest for the 102nd Year in Succession
Pics: Prajwal Ukkuda
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MR)
Mangalore, Sep 8: The Monti Fest celebration here at the Our Lady of Miracles church, Hampankatta popularly known as the Milagres Church has got the history of 102 years. In fact, the first time the people of Milagres started celebrating this feast in the year 1906.
In the early hours September 8, the procession of devotees took off from Attavar New Road junction along with band and tableau. Children carried various types of flowers in plates and baskets as a token of their offering to Mother Mary.
At the entrance of Milagres Church Fr Lawrence R D'Souza, principal, Milagres College blessed the new corn and children offered flowers to Mother Mary singing some of the beautiful hymns.
Later Fr Walter D'Mello, parish priest, Fr Austin Fernandes, assistant parish priest, Fr J J Saldanha, Fr Santhosh Rodrigues along with Fr Lawrence R D'Souza offered the mass.
Unlike other places, in Milagres people used to gather at one of the houses in their wards for nine days prior to the feast for novena instead of gathering at the church.
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