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☼ ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, SUKET

   

History

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.  

 

 

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  
Ramganjmandi (15 kms)

·     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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