When will Goans and foreign tourists and Ph D students, writing FICTIONAL novels / and made-up thesis about Goa, write some facts - as they pertain to Goa? Most take the easy way and substitute, transplant and confuse the Inquisition in Goa with the Inquisition in Europe.
Henrique Salles da Fonseca below has again confirmed that much of the Catholic Church Inquisition was directed against the Catholics. This was in at attempt to purge the Goan Catholic society (lay and clergy) of non-conformists (by the Inquisition's definition) of thoughts and actions. By my reading some fear was justified for immoral behavior, given the widespread social and military misconduct; and syphilis epidemic sweeping Goa in the late 16- and early 17-century. Statistics quote more than 500 deaths of tertiary syphilis was reported by Goa's hospitals every year. During this pre-penicillin period, syphilis was very much like today's AIDS. What would Goans do TODAY if every year there were 500 deaths in Goa from AIDS, not to mention ten times that number being chronic sufferers and transmitting the disease. This does not even account for the much larger native population today. I would appreciate if Henrique Salles da Fonseca could educate us with hard statistics (victims and offences) about THE INQUISITION IN GOA (not in Portugal or Spain or Europe) against the crypto-Jews. I see this mentioned on cyber-Goa. Yet no one has told us how many crypto-Jews were IN GOA and how where they identified. Or is Crypto-Jews just a big word to confuse "supurlem Goenkars" like me. :=)) Kind Regards, GL Henrique Salles da Fonseca: Gilbert Lawrence is right, the abstract has nothing to see with the title. Furthermore, the most of the inquisitors in Goa were spaniard and italian dominicans but historic penalties felt over portuguese jesuits. Jesuits were not allowed by their Generals, namely by Muzzio Vitteleschi, to cooperate with Inquisition; on the contrary, jesuits have been great victims of the Inquisition. However, there has been one jesuit who decided to intrude the Inquisition as the only way to collapse it: Ant�nio de Andrade has been Notary of a trial with no victims to death. But someone discovered his intention to collapse the Inquisition in Goa and assassinated him the eve of the "Auto de F�". Someone is writing the story of this portuguese born in Oleiros by the end of the XVI century and crossed the Hymalaias in 1620. Best regards, Henrique Salles da Fonseca
