Tamil Nadu - Udhagamandalam   

Kandhal shrine feast draws thousands

Special Correspondent

Tourists also take part in holy communion

RELIGIOUS CEREMONY: Bishop of Ootacamund A. Amalraja at the Kandhal Cross Shrine feast on Thursday. - Photo: D. Radhakrishnan

Udhagamandalam: All roads in this hill station on Thursday led to Kandhal on the outskirts of the town.

The occasion was the annual feast of the Kandhal Cross Shrine.

With thousands of persons from various parts of the district belonging to different religious orders participating the Bishop of Ootacamund Diocese Rt.Rev. A. Amalraj presided over a high mass. He also participated in a holy communion.

Among those present were some tourists.

Special buses

A car procession brought the curtain down on the celebrations that commenced on April 27.

The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation pressed into service special buses for the convenience of the devotees.

Adverted to the Calvary of the South it came into being during October 1933 thanks to the efforts of a Roman Catholic priest Father Paul Crayssac.

True cross

Since then it has become a place of pilgrimage for people far and wide.

The shrine also contains a relic of the true cross that was installed during May 1939.

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