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St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam

St .Alphonsa was proclaimed ‘Venerable’ on 9 November 1984. Pope John Paul II declared her ‘Blessed’ at the concelebrated mass at Kottayam on 8 February 1986. Following her canonization by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on 12 October 2008, the tomb of the Saint became an international pilgrim centre.

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St George church Aruvithura

Aruvithura Church is one of the two oldest churches in Pala Diocese. Traditionaly it is believed that the Catholic Church at Aruvithura was established in AD 151. It is assumed that a group of Christians who were baptised by St. Thomas lived here. All the major churches in Pala Diocese have their cultural and spiritual inheritance from Aruvithura Church. Pala, Bharananganam, Plassanal, Poonjar, Thidanad , Kanjirapally etc came under Aruvithura Church. Aruvithura Church also was in the name of Martha Mariam until the 13th century. The statue of St Mary placed at the centre of the main altar is a clear proof of this fact. During the 13th century, a group of Chriatians , who had to elope from Nilackal to save themselves from the hands of enemies, brought the statue of St George from Nilackal and placed it in Aruvithura Church for veneration. From that time onwards Aruvithura Church came to be known on behalf of St George. People in and around Aruvithura were blessed with a lot of blessing from God as they sought the help from St George. Slowly St George at Aruvithura came to be known as “Aruvithura Vallyachan”

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Kadappattoor Mahadeva Temple

The emergence of Kadappattoor Mahadeva Temple is a remarkable incident. After thousands of years, a woodcutter named Madathil Paachu Nair discovered the idol of Lord Shiva inside a large Athi (Country Fig - Ficus Glomerata) tree on the banks of the Meenachil River on July 14, 1960, while he was cutting firewood. On that day, there was an unusually stormy weather with deafening thunderbolts. When he had cut half of the tree, it suddenly fell to the opposite side. This unexpected event left Pachu Nair quite frightened, and he even lost consciousness. However, as the tree fell, the stone idol of Lord Shiva

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