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15
April
Jesus pray
Unlike the opulence of big churches, the simple structure which is home to the statue of Christ on the Cross is surrounded by tombstones. Burials still take place here as it is the ‘grave-yard’ of the Church of Our Lady of Presentation just up the road about 350 metres away. The church had been consecrated way back on February 1, 1875 and the grave-yard established two years later on April 15, 1877.
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12
July
Palliya Functions
Fr. Thiri’s words to the crowd after the ceremony had been that they would see its miracles after he was gone, says Fr. Ivan, adding that his prophetic words had come true when the children of the area were assailed by a skin disease in 1947 and one desperate mother had prayed fervently at the Cross, washed the feet of Jesus with water and then headed for home to dab that water on the skin rash of her little one.
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