Does their name come from the colour of their garb, or from their skin colour? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fathers FN
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 01:11, 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 Juu > PS .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 > > -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha> TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl Can't get through on mobile? Please SMS/WhatsApp
