Narampady too was originally a part of Bela parish. But the church was around 12 km away, the distance having to be covered on foot. The people ran the danger of  drifting. Economically too the Catholic community was downright poor. Being landless they had to work as tenants of the higher caste Hindus and as a result were despised by them. Aware of their abject condition and religious needs Fr Frank Peres, the parish priest of Bela, tried to get a place  at Narampady to put up a chapel for the people. This being a praiseworthy cause, a well-to-do Bunt offered him a plot of 74 cents; this coupled with another of 95 cents bought from a Brahmin became
the church land to begin with. The whole area was covered with dense forest.
The parish, originally called Neckraje (erroneously, because Neckraje village was eight km away) was canonically erected on June 15, 1942 by Fishop V.R. Fernandes. The original 80’ long, mud-walled construction served as a chapel, presbytery, kitchen etc all in one. But it could claim the honour of having been supervised
by Mgr A. Patrao of Puttur while Fr Piedade Pinto was its first resident parish priest. In the midst of stark poverty Fr Pinto struggled hard to uplift the lot of the people through some education. He must have found his five-year stay in the multi-purpose one room harrowing. His successor, Fr Michael Noronha, was destined to work
wonders, starting with umpteen devotions – that put uplifting spirit into his downtrodden people. At the level of education after much struggle he succeeded in starting a school. Given the conditions of the place, he had to import teachers from outside. The people helped him to put up a building for the school as well as quarters for the teachers. The school succeeded in going up to V Std. Fr Michel’s upright life and genial ways won him a number of friends and well- wishers, who would remember his fourteen years’ stay even much after he left the place. Fr Frederick P.S. Moniz who followed him carried the good work further despite the privations he had to endure in the village. He rebuilt the presbytery in keeping with the times. So did he with the church building, adding a belfry. He begged for funds wherever
available. The incessant work at the buildings afforded an opportunity to the workers to learn the working skills too. In 1967 the Ursuline Sisters were invited to start their convent in a building provided for them by the parish priest. He acquired fields
to cultivate and to put up shops and houses to bring income to the church. He secured a plot at Bovikan, 17 km away, in order to construct a chapel for the local Catholics. All this of course went with formal religious activities like training in liturgy and fostering sodalities. As there was improvement in education more and more boys and girls offered themselves for priesthood and religious life.
Others followed Fr Moniz in proving themselves benefactors of the parish in succession: Fathers Anthony D’Souza, Charles Moras, Gilbert Pinto, Arthur Pereira, Vincent Menezes, Gregory Pereira, Ronald Cutinha and so on. Meanwhile Bovican got a chapel of its own thanks to the untiring labours of Fr V.V. Menezes, who thus
won an undying gratitude of the local Catholics.