Our Lady of the Assumption of Vieux Fort (Saint Lucia)
In Vieux Fort, the city of the southern end of the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, the main Catholic church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a parish of the Archdiocese of Casries, which covers the entire island, and celebrates the veneration in English in this southern port community.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The parish of the Assumption of Vieux Fort embraces, in addition to the temple of the city, the chapels of Dierre Morne, Grace and Pierrot, taking the sacramental life to the villages of the south of the island.
- It belongs to the Archdiocese of Casries, erected as a diocese in 1956 and elevated to metropolitan archdiocese in 1974, whose seat is the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Casries.
- In the end of Vieux Fort the Church also has the temple of San Francisco Javier, in Augier, a sign of the Catholic vitality of the region.
- Under the title of the Assumption, the faithful of Vieux Fort celebrate, on August 15, the Mother of God raised to heaven, the same Marian feast that brings together so many Caribbean communities.
Virgin of the Assumption
The parish of Our Lady of the Assumption brings together the Catholics of Vieux Fort and its neighbouring villages in the south of Saint Lucia, within the Archdiocese of Casries. Every 15 August the city honors the Virgin raised to heaven.
"Virgin Mary, to the sky," he prays for the faithful of the south of Saint Lucia.
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