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  • Typical scene in the low caste quarter of a village. Two family houses are shown. width:640;;height:447
  • A mother with her five children standing before their home. width:364;;height:480
  • Child labour in a a village. width:640;;height:381
  • Children from a village walking along a railway track. width:640;;height:388
  • Washermen (the dhobi caste) in a village, their tubs close to the village well. width:630;;height:480
  • The most primitive form of a prayer hut: a sunshade built across the altar. width:300;;height:480
  • Prauer hut on the outskirts of a small village. Stage 1: the basic skeleton has been erected. width:640;;height:386
  • Building a simple prayer hut. Stage 2: beams and sticks have been laid over the top. Here the priest from head station addresses the catechumens. width:640;;height:410
  • Part of the roof matting for a prayer hut is being prepared. width:640;;height:384
  • Building a simple prayer hut. Stage 4: the thatched roof has been completed and bamboo-matted walls added. width:635;;height:438
  • A catechist with his wife and two daughters in front of their home. The cow is a pride possession.<br /> width:627;;height:455
  • Catechist teaching new catecumens in a small village how to pray. width:618;;height:480
  • Father Boon MHM of Poluru parish in Kurnool Diocese talking to Catholics in one of the parish outstations. width:631;;height:430
  • Father Boon instructing the Catholic community in a small village. width:640;;height:404
  • A special festive meal for visiting priests, perhaps on the occasion of a baptism, under a temporary shelter outside the prayer hut. width:636;;height:458
  • The priest who has come from the central parish addressing catechumens at the entrance of the village's prayer hut. width:640;;height:398
  • A priest from parish headquarters saying Mass in the village's open prayer hut. width:640;;height:448
  • Visiting parish priest standing outside the local prayer hut of a Catholic village community. width:607;;height:467
  • Sisters visiting a small village. They are involved in a session of teaching basic hygiene and health to mothers with young children. width:640;;height:455
  • A sister inspecting a baby when visiting an pit;ying village.<br /> width:640;;height:478
  • A small chapel in an outstation. These chapels served many functions. They were also used as schools and medical centres. width:640;;height:463
  • Fr Boon MHM standing with some parishioners at the entrance of the small chapel in their village. width:606;;height:480
  • A priest celebrates Mass in a small village chapel. width:568;;height:480
  • Girls from outstations often received education in a girls' boarding school at parish headquarters, width:613;;height:480
  • Village boys studying in a typical boarding school at their parish headquarters. width:457;;height:480
  • Mr Ferdinand Luthiger of Swiss Lenten Fund (left) and Dr Willi Dober, expert on business mangement (right) flanking me. They have been garlanded at arrival in a parish. width:319;;height:480
  • Dr Willi Dober (left) and Mr Ferdinand Luthiger (right) pose with the actors and actresses after a stageplay put on by children of the village. I am in cassock totally on the right. width:617;;height:457
  • Reception at a parish headquarters. Seated from left to right: Dr Willi Dober, the village head, myself, the local parish priest, Mr Ferdinand Luthieger and Mother Superior of the local convent. width:635;;height:433
  • Ferdinand Luthiger, Will Dober and I on the edge of a road during our voyage through Andhra Pradesh in 1976. width:364;;height:480
  • I, Will Dober and Ferdinand Luthiger in St John's Regional Seminary, Hyderabad, where I taught Sacred Scripture. width:586;;height:448
  • Father P.D. Varkey MSF, my first successor as Secretary of Jyotirmai. width:380;;height:480
  • Letter of appreciation addressed to me in 1999. width:312;;height:480
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