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Moodbidri, June 29 : The Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was celebrated at St Francis Xavier Church, Saverapura , Murkoth Palke on the evening of 27th June 2023.

Redemptorist Rector Rev Fr Gabriel Lobo celebrated the mass. Rev Fr Dony Cardoza delivered a meaningful homily. Parish Priest Rev Fr Noel Mascarenhas and other Redemptorist priests concelebrated the eucharist.

Prior to the celebration, nine days' novena devotion was held. Parish priest Fr Noel thanked the parishioners for their support during feast and novena days. Refreshments were served to the gathering.

The Story of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Credit : RufflesDeQueijo, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

​Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary as represented in a celebrated 15th-century Byzantine icon also associated with the same Marian apparition.​

The icon has been in Rome since 1499, and is permanently enshrined in the church of Sant' Alfonso di Liguori, where the official Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help text is prayed weekly.

Due to the Redemptorist Priests, who had been appointed as both custodians and missionaries of this icon by Pope Pius IX in 1865, the image has become very popular among Roman Catholics in particular, and has been very much copied and reproduced.

​(Pics : Lainish)