May the Holy Mother bless you and ever keep you in Her care...
The feast is celebrated in Goa on 17th November. The celebration begins every third Wednesday in November. This devotion of Our Lady comprises of an extensive celebration which begins with traditional processions and novenas. The church is beautifully decorated and covered with fairy lights. Most of the houses and streets in the village are lit up with colorful lights during the celebrations.
Nine days before the grand feast, a candlelight procession at 3:00 a.m. carries a beautifully decorated statue of Our Lady from the Telaulim church to the Navelim church. Everyday for the following nine days, the Novena prayers begin between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. On the tenth day masses begin at 5:00 a.m. and the celebration of the feast continues for the next three days.
In the evenings, a grand firework display is sponsored by the family selected to celebrate the feast. Throughout the day and night there are Konkani concerts & dramas. In addition there are dances held in the evenings which are well attended.
The legendary Navelim Church...
According to legend, the Navelim church was built with mud (similar to most churches in Goa) between the years 1594 to 1598. The builders were Jesuits and it was financed by the villagers. The first parish priest of Navelim Church was a French Jesuit Fr. John Sena (Mitras Lusitanas no Oriente).
As the time passed, the church became small for the growing population. Later on, it was reconstructed with laterite stones on a larger scale by a rich Goan merchant, whose name is not known. This merchant, according to legend, while passing through the main road running in front of the church, received a message that he would lose a substantial amount of money in his business.
As soon as he received this message, he entered the church and prayed to Our Lady of Rosary, requesting her to relieve him from this catastrophe. He promised to reconstruct the original church, on a larger scale. As a result of his intercession to Our Lady of Rosary, he recovered not only what he had lost, but realized double the amount. He then financed the entire reconstruction of the church. He also renewed the statue of our Lady of Rosary. Information on further reconstruction of Navelim church, if any, is not known...
Did you know...?
Navelim is the soccer capital of Salcete and the whole of South Goa. Navelim has the largest concentration of Catholics in Goa - over 20,000.Navelim is famous for its political, academic and spiritual talents. Some of the famous descendants of Navelim are: Dr. Froilano D'Mello - first Goan to be the Portuguese Ambassador to Brazil; Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes - statesman and linguist who represented Goa in the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon; His Eminence late Cardinal Valerian Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay was the first Indian Prince of the Catholic Church...
Navelim is one of the largest villages in Goa.
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