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Officially the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount Bandra, colloquially known as Mount Bandra and Mount St Mary Church, is a basilica (shrine) of the Latin Church in India, located in the Bandra neighbourhood of Bombay (Mumbai). The festival of the nativity of St Mary, also known as Marymas or the Bandra Fest, is celebrated here on the 8th day of September, which is the occasion of the birth of the virgin-mother of Jesus Christ. The annual feast is followed by a week-long fair or fete known in the Konkan region as the "Bandra fair", which is visited by thousands of tourists, pilgrims& devotees every year. Pope Pius XII granted a decree of canonical coronation to its venerated Marian icon on 21 October 1954, both signed and notarised by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The image of the Virgin and Child was then crowned on 5 December 1954 by Cardinal Valerian Gracias. From Wikipedia