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The
Church of Our Lady of Lourd, a hundred years old, is built within the
St.Joseph’s College complex, in gothic architectural style (it
is said that a maistry from Tirunelveli, one Savarimuthu, was given
intensive training in such construction by the missionaries so that
he could supervise the building), the Church’s 200 ft tall spire
is visible from a radius of 8 kms around it. The Church has not been
a repainted outside as the administrators wish to preserve its antiquity.
The stained glass panels depicting stories from the Bible are truly
beautiful. Some 6000 people attend mass at the church on Sundays. The
Church, our Lady of Lourd is 100 years old.
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Tourists of every faith
visit the church right through the year. Local citizens, of all faiths,
never fail to pause and fold their hands in prayer when they pass
the gates of the church.
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