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Joel D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Monday, November 29, 2004 4:50 AM > > REUNION OF LICEU STUDENTS: Former students of Liceu Nacional de Goa now > settled in Portugal and different parts of Goa will organise a Reunion on 19 > December this year in Panaji city. The decades-old Associacao Academica de > Goa has taken the initiative to hold the event on a date which would have > 150 years of the Liceu. (GT) > The "Liceu Central de Goa" - later renamed "Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque" - was officially created on November 9, 1854. On November 6, 2004 the Lisbon-based "Casa de Goa - Associacao de Goa, Damao e Diu" celebrated the 150th anniversary of that "Liceu" in the following way: First, there was a Mass at the Nossa Senhora de Belem Church adjoining the magnificemt Jeronimos Monastery. The Mass was officiated by the Damanese Fr. Antonio Colimao (parish priest of a neighbouring church) and in the course of it there were hymns sung in Konkani and Portuguese by two Goan choral groups and, at the offertory, there was a dance performed by five Goan girls. The Mass was followed by a cultural session at the Cloisters of the same Monastery, consisting of the singing of the anthem of the "Liceu" (music composed by Maestro Antonio de Figueiredo and lyrics written by Maria da Piedade Salvador Fernandes do Rego), a talk by Prof. Dr. Maria de Jesus Martires Lopes, a "deknni" dance performed by the above mentioned five girls and, in the end, the first ever public singing of the anthem of "Casa de Goa" in Konkani (music composed by Jeronimo de Araujo Silva and lyrics written by Jorge de Abreu Noronha). Then there was a round of snacks and drinks. Jorge
