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| Lourd Mata Mandir |
Tourist Attraction :
- All over the world shrines of Our Lady of Lourdes begun establishing.
- In 1890 the Vicar General of Nagpur diocese, Fr. Charles Felix Pevat, MSFS, obtained space on the Takli Hill as a first step towards the projected building of St. Charles’ Seminary.
- The following year Mr. G.B. Heysmond of Harda, an employee of the railways, made a pilgrimage to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in France.
- He was told of the possibility of building a Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the recently acquired valley of Takli Hill, Nagpur. Accordingly, he donated the entire money needed for building a Grotto.
- In 1975 the Grotto was entrusted to the newly erected Rosary Parish run by the Dominican Fathers and Brothers.
- On February 13th 2000, Archbishop Abraham declared the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes as a pilgrim centre and Lourd Mata as a Patroness of Nagpur Archdiocese.
- Today this place attracts thousands of people and all of them receive blessings from Lourd Mata.