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Yes Alfred,
I agree with you. its all true. its just that iIdid not want to go into all that much of history, thinking that people do know about it.
The point I wanted to make here is that a lot of East Indian? Christians have the same Portuguese oriented names like us Goans; and this similarity is not to be confused with actual origin by birth etc.
For all that, I see some so called 'East Indians' are also now settling down in Goa , in jobs and in retirement, to escape from "the madding crowd' that Bombay has become! Both communities are friendly to each other and this is very welcome!
Only if they do not disagree as to which community is the founder of the "Vindaloo" recipe! both have a lot in common. Viva!
Nasci
.Hi Fred and everyone,
Fr Rufus is not of Goan origin; he is and has been a great priest, and a world renowned leader in the Catholic Charismatic movement.
He hails from Bombay; he belongs to the Bombay Christians who are Christians since the time that the group of seven islands that now comprises Bombay was governed by "The East India Company'. These Christians of Bombay origin are always referred to as "East Indian Christians' because of this history.
Earlier than that Nasci, much earlier!
Portuguese had possession of the cluster of islands that comprise the Bombay/Mumbai of our
times, of which Bombay is just one constituent; other important ones being Bassein and Salssete.
The asset proved so valuable in dealing with the Marathas that when negotiating the dowry that D. Catarina de Braganza would bring Charles I of England, when she married him June 23 1661, the Brittish diplomats cannily managed to include Bombay (also Tangier).
So, Catholicism had quite flourished in Bombay and environs for over 150 years before the incipience of the brittish traders. A visit to St Mary's and a couple of other churches in Bandra will bear out this contention. The marble slabs covering the graves, in the naves as well as adjoining cemeteries manifest ample record.
Alfred de Tavares, Stockholm, 2004-06-15
