Goan Traditional Fair at betalbatim feast

Betalbatim celebrates two Church feasts every year, one in the month of January and other in the month of August. The nine day novena mass gathers the whole village to a series of  sermons preached by visiting priests guiding people through the various challenges of the modern world. 

The village fair is set up the previous evening with stalls of traditional goan sweets, agricultural implements , toys , game stalls.. The village comes alive to the sounds of brass band before the first mass and during the traditional procession around the enclosed garden infront of the Church.