In a message dated 1/19/2004 10:04:25 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >From his name, how did Mestre Geronimo Dias land in Goa? Did he >violate immigration laws? :=))) >
Here is what I read about a month ago in a 1982 article in the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (volume 28, issue 3, pages 123 � 148 by S. K. Pandya titled "Medicine in Goa � A Former Portuguese Territory", and I quote (this is on page 135): "Another 16th century physician of interest to us is Mestre Jeronimo Dias. Priolkar quotes Gaspar Correia to give us a detailed account of his tragic end. 'In this very year (1543) it came to pass that a bachelor of medicine, residing in Goa, named Jeronimo Dias, of the caste of New Christians, in the course of familiar discourses with his friends, spoke of certain things which were against our holy faith. The bishop, on being informed of this, ordered that he should be examined. When arrested, together with some other persons who discoursed with him, he continued to uphold certain things of the old law against our holy faith, all of which showed clearly that he was a Jew, and the proceedings were concluded.... The judgement signed by the bishop, ran as follows: "Having seen the sentence of the Holy Church, in which bachelor Jeronimo Dias stands condemned in a case of heresy, the justice of our sire the king, pronounces sentence to the effect that in respect of the said case, by public proclamation your body be burnt alive and reduced to ashes... In case you seek pardon and repent and confess your error and desire to die as a Christian, you shall first be strangled to death so that you may not feel the torments of fire." He confessed, was strangled and then burnt and reduced to ashes.' (The Inquisition started functioning in Portugal in 1541 and was established in Goa in 1960. As noted, however, persecutions were launched from 1543)." I hope this satisfies the need for details about this historical fact. Cheers, Santosh ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
