Many are nowadays going to the annual feast of St. Anthony’s Church in Kachchativu. This year, the annual festivals will be held on March 15 and 16.
Kachchativu Island which belongs to the Jaffna District is extremely beautiful. Salt plantations, Mangrove plantations and Katchatheevu island full of fish thorns, familiar to the North, are 285 acres. It measures 1.15 kmf in modern metering systems.
In 1605, when Kachchativu island was first discovered by the Emperor Tsarethi, who ruled Ramanadangara in India, it was under Indian control. In time, Kachchativu Island became a headache to both India and Sri Lanka.
Before coming to Sri Lanka, Kachchativu, the fishermen who came to the island from India, used this island for fishing and resting. In the long run, all illegal smuggling involving Sri Lanka and India took place through this island.
Ganja, Abin and all the drugs, sarongs, sari perfumes and Indian films were made secretly by the Kachchativu Island. Hence, huge taxes were lost to India and Sri Lanka.
The next major damage caused by the island of Katchatheevu was the increase in the number of kaltethins coming into the country illegally with the unauthorized secrets of India.
Tamil ‘killing thieves’. ‘Thonanyana’, ‘Oru’. Those who came to Sri Lanka with boats using boats and boats were ‘kalletonins’. This kallonious question was a great handicap for Sri Lanka that time. The Kallottans from India, without Visa or any permit, came here to engage in various occupations.
Kallattoni came to Sri Lanka along the Talaimannar and Mannar sea routes in addition to the Kallitonin coming from Kachchativu. However, a large number of immigration officials in those areas were unable to come to Sri Lanka since they were in service.
Indian and Sri Lankan northern fishermen spoke the same tongue. Therefore, this human smuggling has been very long in the Kachchativu island.
The island of Kuwatchiv, which is owned by India, is given to Sri Lanka according to the Sirima Shastri agreement signed in 1974. Sri Lanka has been granted the right of Kachchativu Island since July 23, 1974, but several groups, including the Bhutanese People’s Party (BJP), are calling for the takeover of Katchatheevu under India. The fight is still in action.
Before 1974, when Kachchativu Island was owned by India, only the Indians arrived at the St. Anthony’s Cathedral in Kachchativu on the same day. The majority of the devotees were fishermen. There was a special reason for believing in St Anthony’s sighs among the fishing community. Fishermen believe that St. Anthony’s are the guardians of fishermen.
They believe that the economy of the fisherfolk is prosperous and that they are the cousins of St. Anthony, who give more fish and make the fish happy. There is a wealth of stories about the fact that many statues of St. Anthony were believed to be capable of performing miraculous miracles.
According to those stories, a group of fishermen who were unwilling to hear a sermon of St. Anthony left their place. The St Anthony then gave his lecture to the fish. At that moment, the fisherman rand told him his lecture.
The fishermen who had left the stretch came back after returning from St. Anthony’s. He apologized to God and sought His favor. So it was said that they were able to make a big profit from fishing industry.
After the arrival of Kachchativu in Sri Lanka, the devout followers of the country join the annual wedding feast of St. Anthony’s Church in Kachchativu. Therefore, the Kachchativu church festive wedding joints are being held between the two Indians and the Sri Lankans and attending the annual wedding. The people of Europe, who are now confined to St. Anthony, are not confined to these two countries, and they are now coming to this beautiful island during Mangalya in Kachchativu.
Katchitheevu Island has since been an island without a settlement. It is difficult to use the island for settlement, tourism or fishing, because there is no clean drinking water on the island. Also, no one wishes to go to Kachchativu Island at any time at any desired time.
It is only during the feast of St. Anthony that only three days of the year will be allowed to go to Kachchativu. It should be obtained from the Defense Ministry of Defense and the Navy if it goes outside Kachchativu Island. The decision was taken to stop the smuggling of the two countries between the two countries.
That journey is like the mercy of Sri Prabha at the end. There are only two buildings in Kachchativu. One of them is the church of St. Anthony. The other building is the building of the Sri Lanka Navy. St Anthony’s uncle has been able to unleash a world-famous, lonely island in the world for three days.
How beautiful it is to visit Kachchativu Island! The distance between Jaffna and India is Kachchativu Island, which is located in the outskirts of India, about 40 miles [46 km] from Jaffna. The distance from India to this island is even lower.
It takes a total of three and a half hours to operate a normal boat for the journey. The Jaffna Peninsula Co-operative Societies and Pradeshiya Sabhas will use a single passenger to pay 300 rupees per trip. The cost of returning from Kachchativu Island from Jaffna is Rs. 600.
The vessels that pay this money are old. When the boom engine is inserted, the “loose” sound of the heart is pounding in the heart. It is inevitable to have a fair fear that the boat will collapse in the middle of the high seas before Kachchativu. The equipment and tools used in these boats are outdated. The life of the Islanders in the North. People who travel to the islands such as Nagadeepa, Delft, and Analathivu are also affected. Unlike Katchatevu, hundreds of thousands of people travel daily to the islands of Delft and Nagadeepa.
Special privileges and journalists will receive a privilege that will never be accepted by ordinary citizens. The Sri Lanka Navy provides transport services to them by specialized vessels. It takes only an hour for such a cruise to take such a boat.
The annual feast of St. Anthony’s Church in Kachchativu will be held only for two days, but the Sri Lanka Navy has to begin work for a very long time.
All the pilgrims participating in the Mangala Festival will be provided with food, drinking water, toilets and medical facilities. The navy craft was like a three-wheeler on Pettah.
The Navy’s senior, lower, junior and senior officers work in the factory. Although this task is not a duty of the Navy, they are operating at home at this time.
From the boat to the people, there is a large number of navy personnel on the boat carrying potatoes, onions, vegetables and gonos, while others supply water to large barrels.
Another group is trying to provide security to the devotees who come to power the island. The hot sun rises to the Kachchativu Island and the airstrip in an hour’s time is severe. But they do not care. The Navy personnel are as diligent as the flies.
Like the ‘kachchiraya, but dogs do not wear clothes,’ all those who come to India from Kachchativu Island will not be able to change their social and cultural traits, all those who go to Kachchativu Island will face immense hardship.
The number of toilets and water that the Navy has provided, however, is indispensable whenever the need arises. They do not care for days, nights, females and males. Shamelessness in various parts of the beach in Kachchativu, without any fear or fear, is unpleasant. Abomination. The stench. Everyone who takes to Katchitheevu should all bear patience.
On the day of the end of the feast of the Kachchativu island, contaminants are so uncleanable on the ground as the whole. The boats reach the Kachchativu Island from the sea, and the Indians do so much to the Gajaramhe that the scarlet falls to the sea before reaching the island.
In 1605 CE, the Tsaripitya ruler of Ramanathapuram, discovered the Kachchativu island and opened it to worship, from the time of the indefinite practice of the Indians to this day.
Indians of this nature often shouted at the Sri Lanka Navy that they were going to attack them. But all Indians who come to the Kachchativu feast are provided with everything from the Navy. The Navy soldiers are also stretching their hands first to get out of the boat.
Since then everything has been searched by the Navy. Regardless of the Indians, the Kachchathivu Island is forgotten by all angels.
Indians and Sri Lankans for godly devotion come to Kachchativu, but it becomes an annual political platform. The Kachchativu Island has been selected to discuss issues between fishermen of the two countries.
The commemoration ceremony will be held later in the afternoon of the Feast of the Feast. There they talk about fishing issues in both countries, but there is no solution. From the very next day, everything is old enough.
chandrasiri
