Hey Quepemcar….
You are now a real Goencar in the land of mystique. Great reading about the findings on SFX….will be fantastic if you can share the real documentation on the conversion of Hindus & Muslims to Catholics and the source of this mass exercise (whether It was the Dominicans or Fransicans…). It is nostalgic for the Goans to be proud of having their own entity….but, the honest truth of who we were before we were disciplined to become converts is a stigma that many would not like to revel. We can see it as a reality all around us in Tanzania….We have a community that is part of the ancestral lineage of Goans…who are proud to be classified as Goans and alienate themselves from the rest of the Indian Diaspora. Holding onto a superiority complex that being Goan is not being Indian. Unfortunately the majority have no clue of their origins, have lost their link to knowing the language, have lost their connections with the culture. Nostalgia is a distant speck on the horizon….it must dawn on all that we better strive to stay afloat and rescue ourselves. Enjoy your stay in Goa. Best regards, Greg. From: Adolfo Mascarenhas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:21 PM To: John Nazareth; [email protected]; Gregory Almeida; Mary Carneiro - Air Zimbabwe, DAR; Lorraine Dias; Anthony Lugendo Subject: John Nazareth your piece on SFX Inquisition John Wonderful piece....I too was under the belief that SFX was responsible for the Inquisition in Goa. As you rightly point out , this is sheer rubbish. The Dominicans and decades later were the real culprits. Francis spent only a short time in Goa. On the 24 of December 2019 I came from Ngorongoro to DSM. At the Airport in Dar es Salaam I was treated like a hero by the security. It so happened that when I was invite to Ngorongoro (NCAA) the Government of Tanzania through our Vice Prez who comes from Zanzibar awarded me with a plaque for have helped to create NCAA as a UNESCO's World Heritage Site. (WHS) My biggest obstacle were a fe powerful politicians did not believe in human rights...and went about destroying schools. etc. President Julius Nyerere heard about it a commission was formed and I ended up by being the Chairman of NCAA I pledged to the Vice President that I would help the Government to establish two world heritage site ONE IN KILWA the other IN LINDI. YES ST FRANCIS WAS IN KILWA....HE WAS STUDYING THE LANGUAGE, TENDING TO THE SICK AND GETTING CONVERTS. AT THE SAME SITE THERE WERE MASSIVE MOSQUES....FOR 5 CENTURIES CHRISTIANS & MUSLIMS HAVE LIVED IN PEACE ....CHRIST NEVER TOLD HIS APOSTLES TO KILL PEOPLE WHO DID ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. I will write some more .....to you. Grandolfo in Quepem PS I read a book on Anjuna two nights ago ....fascinating book yes like Saint Joseph Vaz we might get a second Goan Saint
