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Thousands of devotees witnessed the yearly car festival of St. Xavier’s Cathedral successful Kottar connected Wednesday.
The yearly feast commenced with gaiety and fervor with a emblem hoisting ceremonial connected Monday (November 24), and ended with the expansive car festival connected Wednesday.
Rev. Nazarene Soosai, Bishop of Kootar Diocese conducted a peculiar wide astatine 6 a.m, followed by different peculiar wide successful Malayalam astatine 8 a.m.
The car procession started astir 11 a.m. and passed done Xavier street, Asarimar street, Kambolam road, Railway roadworthy and Cape roadworthy earlier reaching the religion premises.
On relationship of the cathedral’s festival, Kanniyakumari territory medication had declared a section vacation connected Wednesday.
Thousands of devotees from assorted parts of Kanniyakumari territory and Kerala thronged the festival to witnesser the car procession and offered brackish and capsicum to the deity, arsenic a accepted practice.
The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation had arranged peculiar autobus services to Kottar from crossed the district.
The cathedral was colourfully illuminated with decorative lights and the full roadworthy from Anna autobus basal to Railway presumption roadworthy was busting with enactment arsenic roadworthy broadside shops sold eatables, imitation ornaments and location decor items.
Kanniyakumari territory constabulary made elaborate arrangements and deployed further constabulary unit to guarantee the information astatine the festival venue. Since Tuesday, postulation diversions were implemented successful galore parts of city, to facilitate creaseless question of the cathedral’s car procession done the streets and large roads.
