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INDIA Our Lady of Velankanni, the "Lourdes of the East" celebrates 50 years
An hour of prayer a day throughout 2012. John XXIII elevated the shrine in Tamil Nadu to basilica, November 3, 1962. During the 2005 tsunami, the
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