Assisi Ashram, Pampanvilai

Kottar Diocese - 1979

friary-detail

Founded in 1979. The Friars are in-charge of an Animation Centre. It caters to the clergy, religious and people. It is our Novititate since 1985. During the years 1997 -98, 1999 - 2000 and 2004- 05, the Post Novitiate Programme was conducted here. On 1 st May 2014, Bp. Peter Remigius consecrated the new Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Pampanvilai and declared it a Parish. Br. M. Jegadhees became the first pastor of this Parish. The Friary and Animation Centres were renovated in 2021.


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