Viceroy's gate towards Dewar ferry. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukoldgoa/12258037665/in/photostream/
The description plate in the end says.. the façade niche has a statue in stone of Vasco da Gama, correspondingly in the rear, is the statue of the Argonaut https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukoldgoa/12258025395/in/photostream/ The lady with a sword and a book in hand could be St. Catherine of Alexandria. St. Catherine is also Patron Saint of Se Cathedral and similar statue also place in the niche of the se cathedral façade - see pic I think the above description plate should read as .. correspondingly in the rear, is the Statue of St. Catherine of Alexandria and an Argonaut. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukoldgoa/12258306673/in/photostream/ This info I got from the net Because of her faith, Saint Catherine, a fourth-century virgin martyr, was tortured on a wheel and beheaded by a sword. The book she holds alludes to the knowledge that enabled her to refute the arguments of fifty pagan philosophers of Alexandria, one of whom is represented below her feet similar stone? statue in the Se Cathedral façade niche https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukoldgoa/15036958974/in/photostream Argonaut could also mean pagan, philosopher, her tormentor etc another pic from the net http://www.periodoakantiques.co.uk/images_up/a-wonderful-medieval-carving-of-st-catherine-of-alexandria-circa-1510-limburg-970-3.JPG joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
