Ave Maria!
One more post on Mary’s Birthday which was on the 9th of September. This is from Bangalore, India where Catholics are a small minority but they sure get the world prize for celebrating the Birthday of Mary at their Cathedral.
via Bangalore: CM, K J George among lacs of devotees at St Marys Fest.
Bangalore, Sep 9: The St Mary’s birthday festival, which is popular among Konkani Catholics from the coastal region as Monthi Fest, was celebrated with devotion and even pomp with lacs of devotees thronging the St Mary’s Basilica at Shivajinagar. The nine-day novena of prayers and devotion in honour of Mother Mary, which is being celebrated in all parishes with those having substantial number of Konkani Catholics from the coastal region having special services in their mother tongue, culminated at the St Mary’s Basilica with a traditional car festival which was flagged off by Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah after a special blessing of the chariot by Bangalore Archbishop Bernard Moras.
here is an Indian news video from the one in 2011:
Here are pictures form the 2013 event:
