Mangalore, February 7: A large number of people attended the holy mass at the Rosario Cathedral at Pandeshwar on Sunday to commemorate the silver jubilee of the Pope's visit to Bajpe and the completion of 125 years of the Mangalore diocese.
The Bishop of Mangalore, Rev Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza, unveiled the logo of the jubilee at the same event. Before the evening event began, hundreds of people participated in a procession that began from Milagres to reach Rosario Church at Pandeshwar.
Bishop Rev Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza offered the holy mass at Milagres Church along with many diocesan priests at 3.00 pm.
Diocesan Vicar General Monsignor Denis Moras Prabhu, Udupi Deanery Vicar Fr Baptist Menezes, liturgical Episcopal Fr Rony Prabhu, diocesan chancellor Fr Henry Sequeira, CRI President Sr Cecilia Mendonca, Rosario Parish Priest Fr Stany Goveas, Senate Council Secretary Fr J B Crasta, Rosario Parish council Vice President Dolphy D'Souza, Deanery Vicars and others were present.
The Bishop distributed the jubilee candles to 15 Vicars Varas.
He also presented pilgrimage of Holy Cross to Fr Valerian Pinto, deanery vicar and parish priest of Holy Cross Parish, Cordel, which will be placed for veneration at the Cordel parish for a few days and ceremoniously handed over to Shaktinagar parish. The pilgrimage of Holy Cross will cover 159 parishes of Mangalore Diocese in the jubilee year.
Fr Vijay Lobo, Director, Canara Communications screened a documentary on the life of the late Pope John Paul II.
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