Goanet 208 Message: 4 Dated: Mon, 2 May 2022 21:22:15 +0530 Message-ID: <CAHg__J4PN1y-= [email protected]>
: Joao Barros-Pereira <[email protected]> o: goanet < [email protected]>on the subject t] Who Will Be Goa?s next Patron Saint? Indeed lie goes on, a journey of discovery and rediscovery. We know by now it was not Columbus who discovered America, there were a lot of others before him and people were already living in the country much before Chris set foot on the land....You can say that all over again...Lake Victoria was not found by the British Explorer Speke and Burton (and their two Goan Assistants).it was promptly named after the Beloved Queen Victoria..empress of India (did she have a Sikh BodyGuard) It will be difficult to remove Saint Francis Xavierthe Jesuit from Spain, from the Goan...mindset. In fact this is justifiably so. He was indeed a great Saint. This Tanzanian Goan is so impressed with him and what St Francis did in KilwaTanzania that he has pledged to help the Government to Assist...In Kilwa there are tywo huge Mosques...NO FIGHTING between Christians and Moslems for nearly 500 year I stopped reading Comics a long time ago ...so to me Native Indians are not savages ....Indeed we have a close Native American friend married to a Tanzanian. We have been friends for the better part of 4 decades SO you go onn <<<<heard often enough how history is written by the conquerers and winners>>>> The American Indian!did have a heroine...she was a Catholic She was declared a saint in 2012 by Pope Benedict along with other saints from Madagascar, Hawai, Philippines ....her name is Kateri Tekakwitha Goashe survived the small pox(yes introduced by the whites) but one of her relatives wanted her to marry a Chief....Her pock marked face put him off...she had become a Catholic..converted by a French Jesuit became a nun ...the day she died she was as pretty as a maiden she always was !!!! It is worth sometimes pausing in a jungle ...one might learn to appreciate the hue of the moss or the hardworking ant etce... Happy IDD Grandolfo My uncle from Mars informs me that it is really Red... Some people want to dethrone him and install Parashuram who again is not a Goan but maybe has his roots in Orissa. Both are not sons or daughters of the soil. Goan history has been shaped by outsiders to the disadvantage of Goans today. We need to rethink the past, to revisit the past and research the history of the indigenous people of Goa. Who are the experts on the original people of Goa? Speak up or write! I ask again: Did the American Indians who are the original people of the USA have no heroes of their own? Do the indigenous people of Goa have no heroes of their own? --------------------------bhn
