TheOfficially, the '''Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount''', [[colloquial]]ly known as '''Mount Bandra''' and '''Mount St Mary Church''',; is a [[basilica]] ([[shrine]]) of the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], located at the [[Bandra]] neighbourhood of [[Bombay (Mumbai)]], India.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTcnDwAAQBAJ&dq=Mount+Bandra&pg=PT106 | title=DK Eyewitness Travel Guide India | isbn=9780241326244 | last1=Travel | first1=D. K. | date=7 September 2017 }}</ref>
The [[festival]] of the nativity of [[St Mary]], also known as [[Marymas|Holy Marymas]] or the [[Bandra Fest]], is celebrated here on the 8th day of September: the auspicious occasion of the birth of the [[perpetual virginity|virgin-mother]] of [[Jesus Christ]]. The annual feast is followed by a week-long [[fair]] or [[fête]] known in the northern [[Konkan region]] as the "Bandra fair"; it is thronged by thousands[[lakhs]] of [[tourist]]s, [[pilgrim]]s and [[Catholic devotions|devotee]]s every year.<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=255163 Mount St Mary fair begins today]{{dead link|date=February 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''[[Indian Express]]'', 8 September 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_devotees-throng-to-bandra-fair-on-opening-day-as-stall-owners-protest_1437121 Devotees throng to Bandra Fest on the opening day as stall owners protest] ''[[DNA (newspaper)]]'', 13 September 2010.</ref><ref name="CT2018"/> Many visitors come to Mount St Mary Church in order to make their ''[[mannat]]'' (wish) come true.<ref name="CT2018"/>
[[Pope Pius XII]] granted a decree of [[canonical coronation]] to itsthe shrine's reverenced Marian [[icon]] on 21 October 1954, both signed and notarised by Cardinal [[Giovanni Battista Montini]] of the [[Sacred Congregation of Rites]]. The statue of the [[Madonna (art)|Madonna]] and the [[infant Jesus|Prince of peace]] was crowned in a ceremony on 5 December 1954, by the late Cardinal [[Valerian Gracias]].
