Bwana Mervyn, Judging from the dates, you granduncle could have been the one who officiated my grandparents wedding in Zanzibar in 1925. Here is a picture of the wedding guests outside St. Josephs Cathedral. I am not sure if Fr. D'sa is in the picture.
You have always been unpretentious but I do know that the bother of Fr. D'sa - your grandfather - was awarded The Brilliant Star of Zanzibar by the Sultan. Among other Goans I know who received the same award are D.B. Pereira - the first of our family to settle there, his son and his son-in-law i.e. my grandfather. That award stopped after the revolution. https://www.flickr.com/photos/45002663@N00/albums/72157718243218893 The other Mervyn On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 02:14:58 p.m. CST, Mervyn Maciel <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Adolfo.My granduncle, Fr. Lucien D'Sa returned to Goaafter his missionary service in East Africa andin fact died in Goa. He is buried in our village cemetery in Moira.Best. Mervyn M. On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 19:41, Adolfo Mascarenhas <[email protected]> wrote: Would you believe it ....there was a GOAN WHITE FATHER (This is the first time I am hearing of a coloured White Father) The order started in French North Africa and they were dressed in Black. The picture I saw of this remarkable Goan White Father, was he was seated in a human drawn Rickshaw .....The pullers of the two wheeler were all Moslems ....turbaned or fezzed. The Priest was called Fr. Lucien D'sa. ...His name even appeared in the the Zanzibar Gazette of 1910 ...This meant that he could officiate at Catholic Marriages etc ...... Where did he go after Zanzibar ....to the Mainland or to Goa ..:::: I personally own a great deal to Fr. Walsh, from Eire. who was an Irish White Father and a real nationalist. I do not know how my Father knew Father Walsh, but we went to see him, he suggested that I could get a degree from University of London, without going to London, just as we did our Cambridge School Certificate without going to Cambridge !!! That brought a whole lot of Goans from DSM ...Father Walsh advised President Julius Nyerere. Being Irish he was friendly with the 5 Irish Fathers in Pugu Secondary School. ...that was where I was the Geographer Master ...teaching the first crop of Tanzania 7 students for their Cambridge A level. What a crop ...3 of them became Judges, one a Government Verifier in Treasury, one Head of National Development Corporation/etc .....It is not what you teach its how you encourage students to think ....I picked a blade of grass and I asked them what was its name ...only one Maasai knew its name but the students knew a great deal about the vegetation of Great Britain...It was not only colonization of the land but also the mind.So who was this Goan White Father .... Adolfo ...Makongo JuuPS .Now I get it The Goan White Father ..the French built the Church in Zanzibar ..The French were impressed by the Goan Photographers ...and there were more Goan Parishioners than French, English, or German .its very much like the Church in Bagamoyo ....I lived there when I was 7 ears old
