A church in the shape of a cross

By 1752 the church stood finished, raised in the form of a cross with its altar facing east toward the rising sun. Like de Britto's chapel before it, it was “dedicated to the Holy Family”. Its great feast was St Francis Xavier's, kept every December with a solemn novena. The parish fixes the year by two inscriptions once set inside the church's walls.

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Parish history (English)

built of broad bricks from Perungudi, its date proved by two inscriptions inside it

What this source establishes

The parish's own English history — and the source that corrects the page: this church was built of BROAD BRICKS FROM PERUNGUDI, not of stone. Its date is said to rest on two inscriptions inside the old church, which nobody on this project has seen.

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