MADURAI: Tuticorin is gearing up for the annual festival of Our Lady of Snows Basilica and the golden chariot taken out for Mother Mary is the highlight of the year. The festival is expected to ...

Madurai: The 442nd annual festival of Our Lady of Snows at Tuticorin began with a flag hoisting on Friday morning followed by the coronation ceremony of Mother Mary at the basilica at noon.

Hoban dedicated the original Our Lady of the Snows. Led by the Rev. Edward J. Flood, the congregation boasted 25 families, according to news clippings and a parish bulletin for the church’s ...