Our Lady of the Miracles Cathedral, Kallianpur (Milagres Cathedral)

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Miracles,[1] Indo-Portuguese; Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Milagres (formerly a parish church as the Church of Our Lady of Miracles, Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Milagres), is a Roman Catholic Cathedral situated at Kallianpur in the Udupi district of Karnataka, India.

The Milagres parish was elevated to the status of a cathedral church in 2012, giving a desirable fillip to the Konkani and South Canarese Christian people of the locality.

[5] When the East India company lost the Anglo-Mysore war in 1784, Tipu Sultan gave secret orders to his commanders to seize all Christians in Canara and take them captive to Seringapatam.

At that time, one of the parishioners who was in hiding, Menino Francies Luis of Nadu Kudru, Tonse, secretly carried away the Miraculous Statue from the devastated church after praying and promising that he would place her with due honor when the ordeal was over.

When things brightened up with the enemies' death and Priests came after the return of Christians from captivity, the Miraculous Statue was brought back with great honor and Jubilation amidst rejoicing through the river and road in a colorful two-mile long route boat procession and re-enthroned in the church on the high Altar(currently installed in the Shrine ).

In memory and honor of this event,t a yearly boat procession of our Lady on a gaily and artistically decorated throne (cherell) with much solemnity grandeur, and pomp was celebrated at first from Nadu Kudru to the church on the eve of the parish feast from the ancient house of M.r Menino Francis Luis; but in the latter years the procession was from its neighboring Honappa Kudru from a house of his direct descendants for over a century.