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Mother Mary's First Apparition after Her Assumption:

St. Mary's Major Archiepiscopal Church, Kuravilangad is a Marian Pilgrim center of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church located at Kuravilangad in Kottayam district.This church is built in the year 105 AD. This church can be considered as the Eighth Church( coming under eighth series) after the Seven churches Established by St. Thomas, a disciple of Jesus came to India in AD 52. It is believed to be built just Two hundred years before Constantine declared Christianity as the official religion in the Roman Empire. It is also believed that the first appearance of Mother Mary was in Kuravilangad. She appeared in front of a few children and asked them to build a church at a place where a miraculous unending spring sprouted. And Mother Mary made “APPAM’ (Food) made it from stone and gave it to the hungry children. Children reported these events to their parents and later they built the church. That spring exists even today. This church is among the most popular holy sites of Christians in Kerala.

The only parish in SyroMalabar church privileged with a Title of Major Archiepiscopal; The only parish having an ArchPriest. Kuravilangad Muthiyamma.Later it is Rebuilt in 355 AD on the high ranges of Kuravilangad Town in Kottayam, this church has an old bell which bears an undeciphered inscription. The place is believed Mother Mary's first appearance in the world. Even though Apparition of Mother Mary in AD 40 is claimed the First in the world, but Kuravilangad will be the First Apparition after the Assumption of Mother Mary.