TRADITIONAL FEASTS & RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONS

The feast of the Holy Trinity, patron of the Church is celebrated on Trinity Sunday every year. The next feast which is celebrated with great pomp and pageantry is that of St. Anne, fixed for Sunday after 26, July. This feast is much more popular with the overseas Banalkars coming down to Goa for the feast. In olden times, married daughters used to return to their mothers’ homes. The feast of St. Peter and Paul is celebrated by the fisher-folk on 29 June .

The feast of the Our Lady of Livramento is the most pompous feast. One can call it the feast of all feasts. During the last two novenas the statue is lowered from the altar and kept for public veneration. Many people from all over Goa come for this feast. The feast is celebrated on the Sunday prior to the feast of Christ the King.