[Goanet] The PurpleYellow Confraria of The Cansaulim Church Roland Francis roland.francis at gmail.com Sun Sep 10 19:44:25 PDT 2006
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am rather surprised that Joegoauk being associated with the Church (is it the Cansaulim one?) for 20 years has done nothing about the confraria processions at Church festivities. Response: Thanks for your comments. Fyi, I don't belong to Cansaulim church and even if I did, I was on the lower cast The White Opmus, remember ? Proud to be a origianl Goan, remember my post on original Goans ? Let me add some more: Almost all the Goan churches Confraraia- committees/presidents etc are always Gaumcars or from top castes. When they die, their children takes over or elected from amongst the same caste. Sometimes, one feel they are the people who run the church and not the Prists or Bishop House. Anyway, fyi, there were other colour opmus too other part of Goa e.g. purple, green etc Read the last part.. === The Franciscan ambience permeates the beautiful church of St Diogo at the Monte de Guirim foothill. The church was built by Fr Miguel de Sam Boaventura in 1604, with support from the local Comunidade. Fellow Franciscan saints--St Anthony and St Francis of Assisi--flank the main altar, which is graced by the patron St Diogo. I happened to visit the church on the feast day last year, expecting to click a photograph of the colourful procession, a feature so common at the Goan village fest. But I was surprised to find that the Confrad, wore a rather dull brown opmus unlike in other churches, where it is flaming red, pink or green. == Above I found on the net, when I was looking for correct spelling for OPMUS (as I thought it would be OFF MOUSE and I did spell that way sometime ago). I remember wearing the opmus when I was only 10. When did you Mr. Roland? [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ Konkani Songs, Goan Photos, Tiatr/Film VCDs, Bank interest rates etc etc (for updates etc click below) http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/files/ ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
