Feast of Epiphany at Cuelim on Jan 6
Feast also celebrated in Chandor and Reis Magos
THE GOAN NETWORK
CORTALIM
The annual feast of the Epiphany, popularly known as the Three Kings' feast, will be celebrated at Cuelim with reverence and devotion.
The feast of the Epiphany which commemorates the self manifestation of Jesus, will be celebrated at the Chapel of Our Lady of Remedies atop Cuelim hill, on January 6. The chapel was founded by a Jesuit priest Fr Gonsalo Carvalho around 1599.
Three lads from Cansaulim-Arossim-Cuelim who will don the mantle of the three wise men will travel on horseback through three different paths and converge near the chapel of Our Lady of Remedies (Nossa Senhora dos Remedios), on the hill at Cuelim and proceed to the chapel together to attend the solemn feast mass at 10.30 am. Other masses will be at 5 am, 6 am, 7 am, 8 am, 9 am and 12.30 pm and 4.30 pm.
Vicar of St Thomas Church Cansaulim, Fr Jean De Cruz Fernandes, informed that on the feast day there will be frequent shuttle bus service plying from St Thomas Church Cansaulim and Our Lady of Assumption Church Velsao to the Cuelim Mount.
Fr Jean Fernandes has requested the public not to travel in their vehicles tn the mount so as to help ease the traffic congestion and to avail the shuttle bus service.
Apart from Cuelim, the three kings feast is also celebrated in Chandor in South Goa and Reis Magos in the North.
