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St. Michael's Church, Mumbai
St. Michael's Church is one of the oldest Indian Catholics, Catholic churches in the Mahim suburb of Mumbai (Bombay), India. Because the church is at the junction of Lady Jamshetjee Road, Mumbai, LJ Road and Mahim Causeway it is sometimes referred to as Mahim Church. As of 2023 the Parish priest was Bernard Lancy Pinto. History Initially known as ''São Miguel'', the original structure at St Michael's is said to have been built as a convent in 1534 by António do Porto, a church builder of the Franciscan Order. With the Mahratta Invasion of Bassein in 1739, Mount Mary Church, Bandra, Our Lady of Mount Bandra's chapel was destroyed by the Portuguese at the instigation of the British. A picture of the Blessed Virgin was rescued from the church and was taken to St Michael’s. From 1739 to 1761, St Michael's served as a refuge to the popular icon of the Virgin Mary which is now placed at the present-day Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahim
Mahim (, ) is a neighbourhood in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The Mahim Junction railway station on the Western Railway zone, Western Railway and Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway), Harbour Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, Mumbai Suburban Railway network is the last station of the Mumbai City district, city, as neighboring Bandra comes in Mumbai Mumbai Suburban district, Suburb. Mahim is an ethnically and religiously diverse town and has a Hindu temple, church, mosque and Parsis, Parsi Fire temple, fire-temple existing within a few meters of each other. The town has a large Rich and Upper Middle class Marathi people, Marathi population, as well as Sindhis, Sindhi population. Mahim Fort Mahim Fort, which was once visible from the Mahim Causeway and Bandra reclamation, Bandra Reclamation, is barely visible now. The Mahim Fort along with Fort St George in South Mumbai was an important base during the time of the British Empire. Other forts in Mumbai and Salsette Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of Our Lady Of The Mount
Officially, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, colloquially known as Mount Bandra and Mount St Mary Church; is a basilica (shrine) of the Roman Catholic Church, located at the Bandra neighbourhood of Bombay (Mumbai), India. The festival of the nativity of St Mary, also known as Holy Marymas or the Bandra Fest, is celebrated here on the 8th day of September: The auspicious occasion of the birth of the virgin-mother of Jesus Christ. The annual feast is followed by a week-long fair or fête, known in the northern Konkan region as the "Bandra fair". The fair is thronged by lakhs of tourists, pilgrims and devotees every year. Many visitors come to Mount St Mary Church in order to make their ''mannat'' (wish) come true. Pope Pius XII granted a decree of canonical coronation to the shrine's reverenced Marian icon on 21 October 1954, both signed and notarised by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The statue of the Madonna and the Prince of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeping Crucifix In Bombay
The Weeping crucifix in Mumbai is a statue of the crucified Jesus in Mumbai (Bombay) which attracted widespread attention in 2012; when a constant stream of water began to seep from its feet. Some of the local Catholic Christians believed the incident to be a miracle; a skeptic-rationalist and atheist author Sanal Edamaruku, provided evidence that the water stemmed from a faulty sewage system, which seeped due to capillary action. However, Edamaruku also accused Latin Christian priests of regularly scamming devotees and defrauding miracles to make money in order to build bigger and newer churches or convents, and mocked the Pope as "anti-science". A church representative admitted Edamaruku had the "right to doubt" and Christian activists said that the backlash was not for debunking the alleged "miracle", but for the defamatory statements made on live television. After which he became subsequently subject to multiple first information reports (FIR) under blasphemy laws. A Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Traditions And Views
Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter written by Paul, found in the New Testament of the Christian Bible *Ar-Rum (), the 30th sura of the Quran. Roman or Romans may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *Romans (band), a Japanese pop group * ''Roman'' (album), by Sound Horizon, 2006 * ''Roman'' (EP), by Teen Top, 2011 *"Roman (My Dear Boy)", a 2004 single by Morning Musume Film and television *Film Roman, an American animation studio * ''Roman'' (film), a 2006 American suspense-horror film * ''Romans'' (2013 film), an Indian Malayalam comedy film * ''Romans'' (2017 film), a British drama film * ''The Romans'' (''Doctor Who''), a serial in British TV series People *Roman (given name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters *Roman (surname), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MiD DAY
''Mid-Day'' (stylised as mid-day) is a morning daily Indian Compact (newspaper), compact newspaper. Editions in various languages including Gujarati and English have been published out of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune so far. In 2011, the Delhi and Bangalore editions were closed down. In 2014, Jagran Prakashan shut down the midday Pune edition as well. Establishment The paper was established in Mumbai by journalist Khalid Ansari in 1979 as a family-owned newspaper. The Sunday edition of the paper began in 1981. Later, his son, Tariq Ansari led the paper, who sold its ownership to Jagran Prakashan in 2010. The newspaper underwent an overhaul, both, of its print editions and its website in early 2014, creating several new sections in the daily newspaper, in its Sunday edition and on its website. It founded Radio One (India), a radio station initially operating as ''Radio Midday'' in Mumbai, which was eventually acquired by HT Media as 94.3 Radio One in 2019. Relaunch of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN-IBN
CNN News18 is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides international coverage for the channel, while Indian Broadcasting Network concentrates on Indian and local reports. In May 2014, Reliance Industries announced it would be taking over Network18 Group. The move was touted as "the biggest-ever deal in the Indian media space". Reliance Industries already had indirect control of the TV18 network by virtue of investments it made in Network18 starting from January 2012. History CNN International only reached the urban population in India. To reach the Indian masses Turner Broadcasting System together with an Indian company, Global Broadcast News (currently TV18 Broadcast Limited), launched the channel in India as CNN-IBN on 18 December 2005. The channel was completely run by TV18 Broadcast Limited, which only used the Cabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Bombay
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay is a particular church celebrating the Latin Church, Latin Rite of worship, centred in the Bombay (Mumbai) city of the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. The archdiocese has been a Metropolitan see since its elevation, by Pope Leo XIII on 1 September 1886. The cathedral, seat of the Episcopal See is the Cathedral of the Holy Name (Bombay). It also administers an important minor basilica, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, Bandra, Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, in Bandra suburb of Bombay. As of 2006, the archdiocese had 277 diocesan priests, 283 religious priests, 383 male religious brothers and 1,530 Religious sister (Catholic), religious sisters. The archdiocese serves a total of 506,976 Indian Catholics in 121 parishes all across the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area. John Rodrigues, Archbishop John Rodrigues succeeded Oswald Gracias, Oswald Cardinal Gracias as the Archbishop of Bombay on 25 January 2025, following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Christianity, central figure of Christianity, the Major religious groups, world's largest religion. Most Christians consider Jesus to be the Incarnation (Christianity), incarnation of God the Son and awaited Messiah#Christianity, messiah, or Christ (title), Christ, a descendant from the Davidic line that is prophesied in the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of classical antiquity, antiquity agree that Historicity of Jesus, Jesus existed historically. Accounts of Life of Jesus, Jesus's life are contained in the Gospels, especially the four canonical Gospels in the New Testament. Since the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Quest for the historical Jesus, academic research has yielded various views on the historical reliability of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour
Our Mother of Perpetual Succour (), colloquially known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help), is a Catholic Church, Catholic Titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a 15th-century Byzantine art, Byzantine icon and a purported Marian apparition. The image was enshrined in the Church of San Matteo in Via Merulana from 1499 to 1798 and is today permanently enshrined in the Sant'Alfonso di Liguori, Church of Saint Alphonsus of Liguori in Rome, where the novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help is prayed weekly. Pope Pius IX granted a pontifical decree of canonical coronation along with its official formalized title ''Nostra Mater de Perpetuo Succursu'' on 5 May 1866. The Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, Cardinal Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei, executed the rite of coronation on 23 June 1867. The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer serve as custodians of the icon. The image is alternatively named as "The Virgin of the Passion" in Eastern Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nossa Senhora Do Perpetuo Socorro HD
''Nossa'' is a genus of moths in the family Epicopeiidae. The genus was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. Species *''Nossa alpherakii'' (Alfred Otto Herz, Herz, 1904) *''Nossa moorei'' (Henry John Elwes, Elwes, 1890) *''Nossa nagaensis'' (Henry John Elwes, Elwes, 1890) *''Nossa nelcinna'' (Frederic Moore, Moore, [1875]) *''Nossa palaearctica'' (Otto Staudinger, Staudinger, 1887) Former species * ''Nossa chinensis'' * ''Nossa leechii'' References External links * Epicopeiidae Moth genera {{Geometroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessment to form Cambridge University Press and Assessment under Queen Elizabeth II's approval in August 2021. With a global sales presence, publishing hubs, and offices in more than 40 countries, it published over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries. Its publications include more than 420 academic journals, monographs, reference works, school and university textbooks, and English language teaching and learning publications. It also published Bibles, runs a bookshop in Cambridge, sells through Amazon, and has a conference venues business in Cambridge at the Pitt Building and the Sir Geoffrey Cass Sports and Social Centre. It also served as the King's Printer. Cambridge University Press, as part of the University of Cambridge, was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
