Visited by an annual average of four million pilgrims from more than eighty countries around the world wearing badges showing the name of their town and a number i
Saint Ignatius of Loyola puts it very beautifully in his classic the Spiritual Exercises where he speaks of the Trinity looking down on the Earth and finds the hum
From the Castle of Xavier to the Casket of Goa The man who was ready to go anywhere to straighten the crooked And to purify the minds poisoned by the p
An early church on this site was used by Muslim villagers for their livestock before the Franciscans recovered it in the 17th century. The Franciscans built the pr
This article comes with a statutory warning. It is not sugar coated and does not seek to convince those who romanticize or over spiritualize such a pilgrimage. So
The Lake of Galilee also called the Lake Tiberius (named after the city that was built by Herod Antipas after his patron the Roman Emperor) is twenty one kilometre
Cross is the most hallowed symbol of Christianity and its proliferation definitely gives Goa a Christian aura and since this tiniest state was under the major Cath
Machaerus which means “black fortress” was one of a series of hilltop strongholds established by Herod the great, the father of Herod Antipas. Built along the
Madaba which means ‘calmly moving water’ in Aramaic is located about thirty kilometres south west from the capital city of Amman. In the Bible, Madaba, a Moabi
Those who mourn will be comforted, Jesus assures us from the top of the Beatitude Mountain, and think of the thousands who have gone on pilgrimage crying and with
On the first Sunday of February people of all faiths flock to this graceful mother invoking her name for the pressing needs and touching moments of their life beli
The Mother of the Forsaken at Khambholaj does not leave out anybody from her loving fold and as parish-priest Father Lawrence Arul Das testifies, “Here people fr
The visit of Pope Paul VI to Bombay (now Mumbai) from December 2 – 5, 1964 is a testimony of unforgettable memories, stories, pictures and reports. However what
In the month of September for the whole of Bombay or Mumbai it is a week long festival known as Bandra Fair starting on the Sunday following 8 September and if we
The Thais call this city Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and covers an area of 605.7 kms in the Chao Phraya River delta area in central Thailand. There are many theories ab
It became an adventure of architecture and wonder of visitors in 1870 when the Schwarzenberg family asked the woodcarver Frantisek Rint to arrange the bones and sk
Appearing as a brown-skinned Aztec tribal woman, on December 9, 1531, to Juan Diego on the Tepeyac Hill, 700 kms away from Mexico City, Mother Mary wanted to procl
Indeed, if Jesus is the Way, Mary is the way to the Way, and people who flock to Marian pilgrim centres all over the world know in their hearts that without this m
