What this source establishes
The diocese's own roll — 30% below the parish's head-count and 60% below its family count. Printed here rather than quietly dropped.
This is as much of it as we may lawfully print. The rest is at tuticorindiocese.org.
present day
Little Rome today
Vadakkankulam is an overwhelmingly Catholic town, and a remarkably literate one: the census counts 9,220 people, ninety-four in every hundred of them able to read. The parish reckons some 10,500 Catholics in about 4,000 families, organised through Basic Christian Communities. The great August Perunkoor feast still draws close to a lakh of pilgrims for the chariot procession in the small hours of the fifteenth, many of them crossing over from Kerala; and through the rest of the year the parish keeps its people close by its magazine, Vadavai Matha Malar, and its own live broadcasts. The bells, when they ring together, still sound the way people here have always said they sound.
Parish traditionThis moment rests on 3 sources.