The Pallottines in Tamil Nadu became an independent Province taking the name of Our Lady of Good Health (OLGH Province). The official inauguration took place on 22 January 2020, the Feast of St. Vincent Pallotti, our Founder. The name of the Province, Our Lady of Good Health, has a history of Catholicism behind it, as it has its roots in the apparitions of Mother Mary in Velankanni (situated in Tamil Nadu) in the 16th century.

The Pallottines, officially named the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Latin: Societas Apostolatus Catholici), abbreviated SAC, is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right for men in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1835 by the Roman Catholic priest Saint Vincent Pallotti. Pallottines are part of the Union of Catholic Apostolate and are present in 45 countries on six continents. The Pallottines administer one of the largest churches in the world, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Côte d’Ivoire.

Pallotti founded the Union of Catholic Apostolate expresses his idea in the following words: “The Catholic Apostolate, that is the universal apostolate, which is common to all classes of people, consists in doing all that one must and can do for the greater glory of God and for one’s own salvation and that of one’s neighbor.” On July 11 1835 Pope Gregory XVI gave his approval.The Union was officially recognised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as an international association of the Catholic Church on 28 October 2003.Its Statutes were then approved provisionally (ad experimentum) for the period of five years and then definitively approved on 28 October 2008.