Antonio Menezes wrote: > Why not celebrate on the 13th June ( i.e. Monday this year ) > as was celebrated on the 19th. Simple any feast day falling > on a week day is celebrated on the following sunday.
Antonio, The good folks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania head out to a mission, St Anthony's church on the 13th, regardless what day of week it is. That church used to be a tiny chapel on the outskirts of town when I was a teenager. Thanks to donations, it is a fully fledged church today. > Siolim was most probably known as the village of Shiva i.e. > Shiva-le or Shivo-le. And God Shiva has a king cobra round > his head. Perhaps it was a warning to the new converts to > forget Shiva's reptitian devotion. Not to forget that on the top of St. Anthony's, Siolim, there is a statue of St. Anthony trampling a serpent. I was told that there is no other such statue of St. Anthony in the world. Here is the link to JoeGoaUK's picture.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk41/5848181930/ Mervyn
