Mangaluru  : Around hundred years ago locals mostly Hindus belonging to lesser class and economically backward were converted to Christianity by foreign Jesuits and rehabilitated in the “Jeppu Compound” an area of 40 acres around “Jeppu Seminary”. St Joseph Industrial Asylum workshop popularly known as “Seminary workshop” was established to provide employment to destitute converts […]

Mangalore: The Seminary Day of the Jeppu RCC seminary was celebrated in the presence of large gathering of devotees, priests and Bishops from all over India on Thursday at Jeppu in city. It was here that the first 7 Jesuits SJ came to India and landed in Mangalore from Europe and built the first seminary […]