Holy sites in India.
According to tradition, there have been multiple apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Velankanni, also known as Our Lady of Good Health. As tradition would have it, the first of many apparitions occured to a young boy who was delivering buttermilk.
According to tradition, Our Lady appeared to a few shepherd children at Kuravilangad as they were tending their flock. She asked them to build a church at the place from where a miraculous perpetual spring sprouted, which exists even today. The children reported this matter to the elders and a church was built there.
St. Joseph Vaz was a priest form Goa, India, who became a missionary in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), preaching to the abandoned Catholics in a largely Buddhist country. This shrine is located in the city of his birth.