History
It was founded in June 1957 in the Land's End neighborhood of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai. The ashram was started with the aim of fostering love and understanding among the peoples of the nation through the use of education and charity. It was named after the Ven. Fr. Agnel De Souza, a Catholic priest from Goa, who died in 1927.
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