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Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations India Christian Festivals 2026: Goa Carnival, Christmas, Easter, Good Friday, Feast of Saint Francis Xavier, Velankanni Festival Complete Guide I have walked the wet cobblestones of Old Goa at four in the morning, listening to a Latin choir drift through the open doors of Bom Jesus while a Mangalorean nurse and her three children stood next to me, all holding the same small wax candle. I have sat on a TNSTC bus from Chennai to Velankanni on a humid September night, sharing a flask of milky tea with a woman who had walked the last twelve kilometres barefoot. The Christian calendar in India is a network of small towns, big basilicas, family kitchens and pilgrim buses that pulls roughly twenty eight million people, plus several million visitors, into a shared schedule. This guide is the one I wish someone had handed me the first time I tried to plan a Goa Carnival without a hotel. TL;DR India has around twenty eight million Christ...