KurUsadY.com offers info about St. Antony's church in Tamil Nadu, India
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St. Anthony of Padua Church at Kurusady, Nagercoil
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Kurusady.com is hosted on the early hours of this millennium, and its objective is to glorify its almighty through the service extended at St. Anthony’s Church, Kurusady. There are more than 580 Roman Catholic families and more than 2550 members living in the holy land Kurusady.
Kurusady is the part of Kanyakumari District, the southernmost tip of India. 200 years ago, in this blessed land of Kurusady, following a miracle of a stone-cross sprouting from the earth, a church was built with St. Antony the worker of million miracles as the patron saint.
Kurusady church is 100 years old and it has established in the year 1911. The kurusady village has become one of the most famous among the Kottar dioceses. There were twenty-two villages under Kurusady when the parish was established in the year 1940.
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Kurusady.com is made for the people who are passionate about tradition and religion. We Invite you on a path breaking trail of St. Antony's Church, Kurusady. Discover the 100 year history of the church that signifies the Holy Cross. The objective of kurusady.com is to GLORIFY THE ALMIGHTY through the service extended at Kurusady.
KURUSADY means a Holy Cross in the regional language of Tamil. It was a dense forest nearly three hundred years ago. In the forest, there were five kinds of trees and so it was called PANJAVANCADU. The name Panjavancadu has changed to kurusady after the miracle of a stone-cross sprouting from the earth, a church was built with St. Antony the worker of million miracles as the patron saint. This place was intersecting the Rajakamangalam to Thiruchendoor Highway. This Highway was called Manghammal Salai.
There are stories about the origin of Christianity in this place. The much believed one is that one fisher woman after having sold the fish happened to spend the night at a lonely place. Being a devotee of St. Antony she prayed for her protection and then she happened to see a light at night. This incident is told to be repeated the following days of her stay in the village. She was sure it was a sign of divine protection and so pleaded the parish priest of Kottar to erect a Holy Cross on the spot.
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