Read your obituary, as I do all your contributions, with avid, moving memories.
Din't know you had done the Berringer on the S. J. I know several others; however, it is heartening that none navigate far from it.
For myself, despite years of love-hate co-existence with s.j. when I arrived in Sweden long ago, call it by Divine plan if you will, I landed into s.j. territory, and it has been my dioces eversince.
I must have been some years after you, in Goa: Loyola, 1954-60, Fr Meyrelles, Rector and so many others of fond memory; The 3XSousas; Vincent, Walter and eldest brother, Edward, though of Britto's; Peter Mendonca, the poetic, musical, romantic Peter de Sousa, Bros JosephX2, Cana, Britto, many more. Fr. Vascode Rego was there for just a term or so, I think,. but left impressive recollections.
Was at St. Xavier's College under Dicky, Fr Edward d' Cruz. He was the principal, died so early.
Some contemporaries are Jesuits: Savio Rodrigues, now heading the Arrupe inst. at Rachol; co-villager Francisco Alves, much junior and not Loyola, but I think St Paul's Belgaum, now at Georgetown, Wash. and so many others.
Do you know the whereabouts/status quo of Herman de Sousa, Margao. A handsome young fellow I still remember him, as a noviciate, reading us Huklebery Fin, Tom Sawyers,etc. before night-prayers.
Fr Irrineu I think was with the Baga House from inception if not quite its inceptor.
Did you join the Society after, my cousin, Romualdo de Sousa? He is now with the Management Inst (?) but was earlier Provincial at one or two places, I think once in the USA.
But being from Moira, (across the fields from my maternal village, Ucassaim, the recepient of much of the bannana-plantations odours when the wind 'favoured' us), you may have been at St. Britto's. What a huge thing it has become now.
The inquisition debate proves increasingly interesting. Don't you, Jorge, think it is possible to coax the Gulbenmian, Fundacao Oriente or some Portuguese University to provide research schol�arship for this purpose.
From India a reciprocant scholarship could surely be instituted/cajoled.
What Gilbert, you, Tariq are doing is fine but it has to be gone into deeper. I have just started looking into the matter and it is too socio-historically entrenched to be treated with casually academic insousiance.
Excusing the inquisition,
Sempre Vosso amavel e affeituoso, Alfred de Tavares, Estocolmo, 27 de Fevereiro dos 2004
From: "Teotonio R. de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "TSKK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet]Remembering Fr. Antonio Pereira Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:16:07 +0000 (Hora padr�o de Greenwich)
The news of Fr. Antonio Pereira's death leaves me sad. But it may have also
brought him relief from nearly 11 years of paralysis. Even after moving out
of Goa / India (and the Society of Jesus), not once could I be in Goa and
not reach till Fr. Antonio's room at St. Britto's to spend a few minutes
with him. Many years of living together at the Xavier Centre of Historical
Research, and occasionally at Baga Retreat House, retain many fond memories.
But more anecdotal cases happened when we travelled together to Lisbon in
1985 to participate in the 4th International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese
History. The first incident took place when we reached the Lisbon airport.
Antonio Pereira was asked by the customs officer to open his bag. Antonio
Pereira was carrying quite a few packets of cashew-nuts for his old Bicholim
school boys in Lisbon! The customs officer told Fr. Antonio Pereira: "minha
pequena gosta de caro�os" (my little one likes cashew nuts), suggesting
obviously that he leaves behind some! I was taken aback by Fr. Antonio
Pereira's quipped quite spontaneously: "a minha pequena tamb�m gosta", and
closed his bag quickly! After that we reached the Jesuit provincial house in
Lisbon (Lapa) where we were going to stay. It was past 9.30 p.m. and the
Jesuit community had already finished its dinner. An old brother was looking
after the kitchen. Fr. Antonio Pereira was hungry after the long journey
from Bombay till Lisbon, and we went to see if there was any dinner for us!
The old brother Paulo's reply was: "podem comer amanh�"! (you may tomorrow)!
It was Fr. Pereira's first visit to Lisbon, and he was quite impressed by
the austere hospitality of the Lisbon Jesuits! Even the last time I
visited Fr. Antonio Pereira some months ago, he still recalled with humour
that incident of the Portuguese Jesuit brother's advice about eating the
next day!
May his sould rest in peace and be filled with the bountiful and everlasting
heavenly hospitality! No "next day" now Fr. Antonio Pereira!.
Teotonio
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