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About us
About Chapel
Our Lady of Health Chapel Was found in late 1980's has a empty land after many years later people for this locality joined together and Planed to build a chapel
but insufficient of fund the chapel was stopped.
Many year Later of continuous Prayer and Worship Mother Mary blessed this land has hold land and conveyed her message by the old Man
" who joined us for a annual feast for few decades and informed us that the chapel place is holy and Miracles will happen " after that we are not seen this old man.
As days passed we found Miracles was happening who believed in god, Slowly the chapel Building was raised in the year 1990 this Chapel was Build By neighbors , vicinity and many unknown hands. Vicinity RC People joined and formed a Committee of Holy Family service !
Every year two joint family's will run the service in celebrating The Chapel Annual Feast and also incharge for the chapel.
In The year 2011 a Community was formed for improving the Chapel and We are looking more helping hands in building this chapel
About parish,
Our Lady of Loudres Church, In the year 1882, The Royal family of Mysore (H. H Krishna Raja Wadayar III) had granted 4000 acres of land to build a heritage village by the Anglo-Indians for their habitation and agricultural activities. The first family was Mr. David Emmanuel Starkenberg White and Mrs. Rose White, who settled down and so the place has been known by their surname “WHITE”. Hence the village is known as “WHITEFIELD”.
Mrs. Rose built “Our Lady of Lourdes Church” in the year 1894. The foundation stone was blessed and laid the Rev. Dr. E. L. Kleiner, the Bishop of Mysore in 3-7-1894. Mrs. Rose White died at the age of 73 in 23-10-1923. Her mortal remains have been buried inside the church. Her husband’s mortal remains are buried in the “Memorial Church (CSI Church)”. In the beginning, Our Lady of Lourdes Church was a sub-station to the St. Anthony’s Shrine of Thambuchetty Palya. Later on in 1936, the church was declared as an independent parish. The first parish priest was Rev. Fr. Anthony Laval, a French priest.
About Bangalore archdiocese
The Diocese of Bangalore was formerly a part of the Mysore Mission which was separated from Pondicherry in 1845 and entrusted to the Fathers of the PARIS FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY (Missions Etrangeres de Paris). The Mysore mission was erected into a Vicariate Apostolic in 1850 and entrusted to Msgr Charbonnaux, MEP. who was at that time coadjutor Bishop of Pondicherry.
In 1886, the Bull "Humanae Salutis Auctor" elevated the Vicariate of Mysore to the rank of a Diocese. Mysore was the title and Bangalore was the headquarters of the Mission. All along the second part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th the Foreign Mission Society, under successive Bishops, developed a network of churches, schools, convents and colleges. Thus they prepared Bangalore to become an Archdiocese, a great capital and a cosmopolitan city.
The Christian infrastructure of Bangalore owes much to the French Fathers, SERVANTON Circle in Cantonment area and Briand Square near City Market, perpetuate the memory of the Founders. The above two along with the following viz., SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER'S CATHEDRAL whose first Parish Priest was Fr. Jarrige in 1842, and SAINT JOSEPH'S CHURCH built by Fr. Bigot-Beauclair in 1851-1852, SAINT MARY'S BASILICA, started as the first church in Bangalore, was built as we see it now, by Fr. Kleiner between 1875 and 1882 before he was made Bishop. The SACRED HEART CHURCH was completed in 1895 by Fr. Combret. The then Cathedral, SAINT PATRICK'S CHURCH, was completed by Fr. Gailhot in 1844 and renovated by the illustrious Fr. Tabard who was its Parish Priest from 04.12.1891 till 12.04.1925. He is buried inside the church. The ST PETER'S SEMINARY at Malleswaram, now a Philosophy and Theology faculty and centre for Canon Law was established in Pondicherry in1777 by Bishop Brigot, first MEP Superior of the Malabar Mission. The Seminary was shifted to Bangalore in 1934. SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE was founded 1882 by MEP Fathers. It was handed over to the Society of Jesus on 1 June 1937.
Subsequently the Diocese was bifurcated and thus the Diocese of Bangalore was erected on 13th February, 1940. It became an Archdiocese on 19th September, 1953. On 14th November, 1988, the Diocese of Shimoga was created to which Bangalore Archdiocese ceded the civil district of Chitradurga. Thus the Archdiocese of Bangalore now comprises six civil districts of Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, Chickballapur, Kolar, Ramnagara and Tumkur. These cover an area of 27,123 Sq kms with a total population of 1,61,31,589 as per the census of 2010 currently the Catholic Christian population is 6,25,000 (2012) Approximately.