[2] Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falc?o wrote: The (above) insinuation is malicious,contemptuous and baseless....Bernardo Souza seems to have an axe to grind. J. Colaco wrote: c: I am not certain that Bernardo was malicious. It might just be prejudicial and/or ignorant.
If the Portuguese were not ignorant, then why did they introduce into Goa a portrait of Christ who, I emphasize, was born an Arab Jew, with a white skin, blue eyes and light brown hair? That the images come from Italy is well-known; under the Padroado agreement, the Portuguese blindly accepted whatever they were fed by the Vatican - which is another proof of their ignorance. And under the said agreement they misused the catholic religion to achieve political objectives.
