St Clement’s Pilgrims in India

: Sree Panmanabha Swamy temple

A group of 40 parishioners and friends from St Clement’s Dundee with Parish Priest. Fr Johney Raphael CST have just returned from a Pilgrimage to India we travelled with Ashin City Tours and visited the Golden Triangle and Kerala. We were privileged to visit Fr Johney’s family home in Cochin also Fr Rogi Thomas’s (another priest in our parish) home in Kottayam where his family prepared lunch for us all!! We also had the opportunity to visit the tomb of Fr Jacob CST who served in our parish for a number of years , who was tragically killed in a road accident in Kerala in May 2016.

Other places of interest were Taj Mahal, St Georges Church, Cochin, St Alphonsa Pilgrim Centre, St Kuriakose Elias Chavara Pilgrim Centre, Sree Panmanabha Swamy Temple and so much more.

: Time for a cuppa

: Mass in St Alphonsa Pilgrim Centre

: St George’s Church, Cochin

: Fr Jacob’s tomb

: Fr Johney’s family

: Pilgrims at Fr Johney’s family home