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Detailed explanation-1: -The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, also known as Sanctuary of Our Lady of Velankanni, is a Marian shrine located at the town of Velankanni in Tamil Nadu, India.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is located in Velankanni of Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Velankanni has one of the country’s biggest Catholic Pilgrimage Centre, the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health. Devoted to Our Lady of Good Health, it is popularly known as the “Lourdes of the East”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our Lady of Good Health (Tamil: Ārōkkiya annai), also known as Our Lady of Vailankanni, is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by devotees. She is said to have appeared twice in the town of Velankanni, Tamil Nadu, India, in the 16th to 17th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -September 8, is commemorated as the feast of Our Lady of Good Health.

Detailed explanation-5: -Our Ladyof Good Health, November 21, is a Venetian tradition and it marks, in a way, the entering of the cold season. The tradition in itself is a quite simple one: a procession to the Basilica and a reverence to a depiction of the Madonna, who ended the plague of 1630 in Venice.