Blessed by the Star
It is common for Catholics in India to assume that Independence Day was timed to coincide with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. This is not true. Although the Feast existed, it came to be better known and universally celebrated only after the formal declaration of the dogma by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950, that is, three years after the declaration of India’s political independence.Read more
