--- Eugene Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was told that Fr. Benny Aguiar is brother of late > Prof. Theophilus Aguiar, who was one of my teachers > at St. Xavier's College. I believed Aguiar was a > Goan, but perhaps I am wrong in my belief. I will > check with Prof. Aquiar's son who lives in New York. > I met Fr. Benny on a couple of occasions. He was > later transferred to Delhi and edited an organ of > the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. > Mario replies: > Fr. Benny Aguiar is an East Indian and the oldest sibling in his family. He is not related to Prof. Theophilus Aguiar, who, I believe, is a Goan. Fr. Benny's sister, Sr. Avis Aguiar, has been an assistant in Rome to Cardinal Lourdaswamy for over 25 years. Fr. Benny was Editor of the Examiner for several years. > For some of those on Goanet who seem unfamiliar with East Indians, they are culturally indistinguishable from Goan and Mangalorean Catholics, including their names as we see from Eugene's post, except they may speak Marathi instead of Konkani among themselves. > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
