Catholic shrine in Tamil Nadu opens breastfeeding room

Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child in her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:15-16).
These are the words written in a new breastfeeding room, which was opened on February 20 at Our Lady of Periyanayagi Shrine. The shrine is in Konankuppam, Kallakurichi district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and was constructed by Italian Jesuit missionary Father Constantine Joseph Beschi (1680-1747).

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