Indian Catholics?

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Julian Sherman
Why, I asked myself, were half of the passengers on my Ryanair flight from Stansted to Lourdes/Pyrénées today, of Indian appearance???? This is not the first time I've noticed it..... a mass Indian conversion to Catholicism?..........apparently not, I think I've found the answer.


«A Lourdes, les Tamouls ont deux pèlerinages»
www.liberation.frReligion . Le père José Marie de Antonio, de la Pastorale des migrants des Hautes-Pyrénées :

So, this month it's the Sri Lankan Tamils that make the pilgrimage to Lourdes (following the Indians in July) and are prepared go to the lengths of taking communion, even though they are not Catholic! They believe that they can extract some benefit from the pilgimage and see the Virgin Mary as some kind of Goddess. It also appears to be a type of purification for them as well......bizzare!

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

For those that have a problem with French, I've found this article.
http://3tr.r.mailjet.com/rWi.html

So there are Catholic Tamils.......although I'm not sure that they are in the majority. I suppose it's a case of, "You don't have to be Catholic............................... but it helps!"

 

[Uncle Leo]

My sister goes to mass every Sunday at a place in Southchurch Rd (I went there for my niece's christening but the name escapes me) and she says a large part of the congregation are Lankans.

 

[Pubey]

We visited a couple of churches when we were in Sri Lanka. Historically with a lot of trade and visitors/colonisers due to the Silk Road, religions and nations (in particular the Portuguese and Dutch I think) left their stamp.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I used to work at Nazareth House and it was great but it seemed to me that everyone in Southend with an Irish accent was juiced in somewhere down the line.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Goa is a catholic state, a hangover from the time it was Portuguese.