> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007
> 07:16:31 +0530> Subject: [Goanet] Tribute to a true Goan: HERALD(Goa), Nov 4,
> 2007> > > > TRIBUTE TO A TRUE GOAN> By Valmiki Faleiro> > Hoary Hospicio,
> South Goa’s major public hospital, opened on December 13, 1867, in a>
> thatched hut. Yes, a single thatched hut. A saintly Catholic priest, Antonio
> Joao Miranda,> a Margaoite who lived on the same street as I am now
> privileged to, started it at a time> when the town reeled under an epidemic
> of the dreaded small pox. Dozens were dying.> Disposing the dead was
> difficult: people feared the contagion.>
Steady on, Valmiky...
Pe. Antonio Joao Miranda, a Margaoite?
Surely, a Lotlecar.... from Rassaim, I believe, where Miranda properties still
abound.
Alfred de Tavares,
Stockholm, 2007-11-08
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