‘Mother of the Rosary’ miracle image’s pilgrimage from Rosario in Mangaluru city
Mangaluru: The historicity of the Portuguese confirms their arrival on the shores of old Kanara’s, Mangaluru in January 1568. On the river banks here they established their fort named “St. Sebastian” and a church was incorporated in this fort. Here, an image of ‘Mother of the Rosary’ was installed, it gained a high reputation as a ‘miraculous statue’. Thus it came to bear the name as ‘Mother of the Rosary’ church. It is now practically 450 years.
It was later raised to the status of ‘Rosario Cathedral’ in 1850 and was the mother church of the region. Built into this religious and spiritual theology is a deeply prayerful tradition of the ‘Rosary’, which at this point of time is set to engulf and manifest among the more than 450 families of this pioneer parish. The call now is for deep Catholic spiritual renewal in holiness of each and every family and person here.
This miraculous statuette or image, on August 15, 2017, as per God’s will, will be set out on a pilgrimage to each and every family home of all the 14 wards of the parish and return back to its seat in the Cathedral in February 2019 – it is a land mark of this great historic event. This was announced by Fr J B Crasta, the Rector of the Rosario Cathedral. The statuette will be blessed by Msgr. Denis Moras Prabhu, Vicar General who will launch it’s pilgrimage as well. Priests of the parish Frs Anil Fernandes, Rocky Fernandes and Vincent D’Souza were present as also the Vice -President of the Parish Pastoral Parished C J Simon and a large congregation.
