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☼ ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, SUKET |
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Present Activities · St. Michael’s Parish with approximately 170 catholic families
· Chaplaincies
to the PSA Sisters at Satalkheri (6 kms) and the FSMA Sisters in
· Mikhelpura Samuhik Sinchai Yojana – Registered Trust catering mainly to the farmers’ problems and to the irrigation of their fields · Salawad Education Development Society – Salesian Trust carrying out educational and other activities · 40 Self Help Groups with the Oriental Bank of Commerce as partner · 6 Village Education Programme centres · Daily supervised study for village children in the parish from 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. · Self Employment Training Programmes
Salesian Team Fr. Elson Barretto: Parish Priest Fr. Glen Fernandes: Principal Fr. Cleophas Braganza
Our Collaborators Teachers: 6 Social Worker: 1 Farm Workers: 6
Contact Information Address St. Michael’s Parish, Mikhelpura, Salawad, Suket P.O., Kota District, Rajasthan – 326530
Phone House: (07459) 234153
Email: rajadbstan@datainfosys.net
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In
July 1905, a few French Capuchins came to Jhalawar-Jhalrapattan at
the invitation of the Raja. However, due to the opposition of a few
fanatics in the Raja’s court they were forced to close down their
work there in 1913. On hearing about this, the Maharaja of Kota
offered the French Capuchins 561 bighas of land near the village of
Salawad. The idea was to take in the overflow from Khurda in M.P.
which was getting too big. In April 1914 the Capuchins came in with
12 families (the heads of these families were orphans of the great
famine of 1899-1902) that would constitute the nucleus of the new
parish. The parish developed fast: in 1917 the Primary School was
initiated, in 1925 the Church was blessed and inaugurated and in
1925 the Catechists’ Training Centre was shifted from Bhawanikhera
to Salawd. In 1950 the Capuchins handed over the parish to the
diocesan clergy who then administered it for the next fifty years.
In May 2002 the Salesians entered the Suket parish, and were handed
over charge officially in an impressive ceremony, by the Bishop
Ignatius of Ajmer-Jaipur on June 30, 2002. 
