🕍 Sacred Heart Shrine - Idaikattur | Only French Style Church in India | Emerson Vlogger

Idaikattur Sacred Heart Church - Sivagangai District
This unique church of the sacred heart of Jesus was built in the year 1894 AD by a French missionary Fr. Ferdinand Celle SJ. This is a replica of the Rheims Cathedral in France. The donor a French Anglican lady by name Mary Anne was suffering from severe heart ailment. After prayers to the sacred heart of Jesus she got completely cured. Immediately to show her gratitude to the sacred heart of Jesus Mary Anne wanted to build a church.When Mary Anne came to know about the arrival of Fr. Ferdinand in France she requested him to build a church to the sacred heart of Jesus in his parish Idaikattur in south India with a donation of 2000 franks
On Madurai-Rameswaram NH between Madurai - Manamadurai lies ‘Muthanendal’ a non-descript small village. The speeding half-body Sand laden lorries in this route where notorious terror machines. Once you cautiously handled this stretch, and crossed ‘Thiruppachethi‘ - the village famous for long aruval !! (’thirupaachi aruva’) - the traffic is much less and the road inviting. It is easy to zip past ‘Muthanendal’, a non-descript bus stop & a few shops after a curve without noticing it.
This is the place to slow down to a halt to reach Idaikattur. A small sign board will inform you that ‘Idaikattur Shrine - 1km’ just a few paces before this point. It will help you to slow down. We have to take a 90 degree left turn just before the bus-stop and climb up to cross river Vaigai. The bridge is completely hidden as you approach the spot, so it is easy to miss it. Idaikattur is just a half kilometer after crossing the river.
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