Pathetic Condition of Velankanni - Ernakulam Express | വേളാങ്കണ്ണി ട്രെയിനിന്റെ ദുരവസ്ഥ കണ്ടില്ലേ?

Pathetic Condition of Velankanni - Ernakulam Express | വേളാങ്കണ്ണി ട്രെയിനിൻ്റെ ദുരവസ്ഥ കണ്ടില്ലേ? #indianrailways #velankanni

0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Breakfast
0:57 - How to go Velankanni?
1:51 - Church and Surroundings
6:44 - DEMU Journey to Nagapattinam
13:12 - Interesting things in Velankanni
15:38 - Pathetic Condition of Ernakulam Express
20:30 - Departure Procedures
21:49 - Third AC Coach
23:24 - Dinner from Nagapattinam
24:09 - Thiruvarur Station
24:58 - Punalur
26:55 - Reached Kollam
28:27 - Conclusion

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The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, also known as Sanctuary of Our Lady of Velankanni, is a Christian shrine located at the town of Velankanni in Tamil Nadu, India. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The devotion has existed since the mid—sixteenth century, and is attributed to three separate miracles believed by devotees to have been worked at the site: the apparition of the Madonna and Child to a slumbering shepherd boy, the healing of a handicapped buttermilk vendor, and the rescue of Portuguese sailors from a deadly sea storm.

Initially, a modest chapel was built by the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay-Bassein, soon after they washed ashore safely in spite of a severe tempest. An annual novena is celebrated and draws nearly 5 million pilgrims each year.

John XXIII raised the Marian shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via the Pontifical Decree Salutem Supplicibus Dilargiens signed and notarized on 3 November 1962. He called the shrine Sanctuarium Lapurdem Orientale ("The Lourdes of the East") due to its massive influx of Marian devotees.

Marian apparitions at Velankanni include three apparitions of the Virgin of Velankanni in the 16th century, according to oral lore and popular belief. The third noteworthy incident is the reported miraculous rescue of the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay-Bassein, who were sailing away from a deadly monsoon surge and tempest, in the Bay of Bengal in the late 17th century.

The first Marian apparition is said to have occurred in May 1570, when a local shepherd boy was delivering milk to a nearby house. Along the way he met a beautiful woman holding a child, who asked for some milk for the child. After giving her some milk, he continued on under the hot tropical sun, upon finishing his deliveries he found that the jug was still full of fresh and cool milk. A small shrine was built near the site where the boy encountered the woman, a location that came to be called Maatha Kulam, which means "Mother's well" in Tamil.


The second Marian apparition is said to have happened in 1597, not far from Maatha Kulam. A beautiful woman with a child in her arms appeared to a crippled boy selling buttermilk. The child asked for a drink of buttermilk. After he drank it, the woman told the boy to visit a gentleman in the next town and ask him to build a chapel in her honour at that location. As the boy set out he realised he had been healed and was no longer lame. A small thatched chapel was built shortly thereafter in honour of "Our Lady of health" or Aarokia Maatha in Tamil.

The third notable incident occurred when a Portuguese ship sailing from Macao to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was caught in extreme weather in the Bay of Bengal. The terrified sailors invoked the aid of the Virgin Mary under her title "Star of the Sea". The raging storm suddenly subsided and the entire crew of 150 on board the ship were saved from capsizing. This happened on 8 September, the feast day of the Nativity of Mary. In thanksgiving the sailors rebuilt the shrine, and continued to visit and donate to the cause of the shrine whenever their voyages brought them to the area.

The shrine that began as a thatched chapel in the mid-sixteenth century and became a parish church in 1771, when Indian Catholics were persecuted in the erstwhile Dutch Coromandel, after the Luso-Dutch war was waged by Dutch Protestants. In 1962, the site was elevated to the special status of a minor basilica by Pope John XXIII.