Gilbert - He preached in Tamil, three months into his Coromandel stay ! I have not read about Konkani skills, either way. One can, however, wax eloquent about his great concern and toil for the sick and infirm, to a point that left him debilitated and ill. His own native Basque/Vasc/Vaskan, Europe's first language, is Tamil based, and is still spoken in the Siva Oasis settlements of Western Egypt. The Berbers speak a variant. Only nine miles of ocean seperate those proto-Asiatics from Iberia's Andaluz.
________________________________ From: Gilbert Lawrence [email protected] ------------- From Ivo: ST.FRANCIS XAVIER: THE ITINERANT OF GOD: Born in Navarre, Spain, on April 7, : What a fascinating chronology of FACT-FILLED history. Thanks a million for putting this Is there any evidence (writings) on SFX's fluency in Konkani? .
