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- ...that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health (pictured) is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?
- ...that early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country?
- ...that English missionary Andrew White, the "Apostle of Maryland," celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25, 1634 on St. Clement's Island?