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ST. ANNE’S CHAPEL---V. BENEFACTORS( CONTINUATION) Donations during the year 1941, Mr.Gerson D’Mello ( Godgoddo)offered a treasury safe with the iron door fixed to the sacristy wall. Mr. Pedro Antonio Carneiro( Donvaddo) donated two candle stands with five "mangas". Donations during the year 1943: St. Anne Club, Bombay, offered a chalice in commemoration of the centenary of the foundation of the chapel. Mr. Antonio Salvador Monteiro offered the Cement Cross placed on the top of the façade of the chapel ( Cruz da torre da capela) while Mrs. Maria Cristalina Lobo offered banner of St. Anne. Donations during the year 1945: Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt warders offered a gold plated ‘ambula’ to carry the communion to the sick. Mr. Cosme Damiao C.C.Vaz( Donvaddo) offered a banner of St. Anne golden bordered( galao). Donations during the year 1947: Mrs. Cristalina Souza e Fernandes( Tabravaddo0 offered a small crown to the Image of St. Anne( Processional image), while Mr. Joseph Lobo, son of Mr. David Lobo offered a set of vestments in 1962. A new portable altar was donated by Mr. Gomes Vaz( Donvaddo).Mr. Inacinho Remedios( Tabravaddo)offered a wooden cupboard for the sacristy to hang the vestments and preserve other material of the chapel. Donations in 1973: Mr. Nascimento Victoria and Mr. Sylvestre Victoria( Donvaddo) installed the electricity wiring, while Porfirio Remedios and family( Tabravaddo), Lawrence and Anna Augusta Rodrigues( Mudd’davaddi), Caetaninho and Emmy Sequeira( Donvaddo), Januario Rego( Mollebhatt) and an annonymous donor each offered an electric fan to the chapel. Donation during 1977: To build a safe room of the chapel Mr. George Mascarenhas( Donvaddo), Jose Carneiro( Donvaddo) and three other annonymous donors. Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas( Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt) brought from Manila, Phillipines and donated to the chapel a cream vestment with four different coloured stoles, one small stole and cover over chalice, while Mr.. Seby Mascarenhas and Mrs. Ermin Mascarenhas( Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt) offered an offertory table to the chapel. In 1980 Mr. Anselmo Mascarenhas and Fr.. Nascimento Mascarenhas( Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt) offered a Roman Missal in Konkani while Mr. Luis Jose Remedios , in the name of Bengalkar family( Tabravaddo), built on his own, a portico on 28th December, 1990. A new lectern or ‘ambo ‘is offered by Mrs. Emmy Sequeira( Donvaddo) in memory of her father Mr. Filipe de Souza. In 1992 Mr. Luis Jose Remedios( Tabravaddo0 offered two fans for the corridor of the chapel as well as a Roman Missal in Konkani. Mr. John Carneiro( Donvaddo)offered a steel cupboard to the sacristy while Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas( Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt) offered a model of the chapel artistically done by Mr. Bento de Souza( Malim, Penha de Franca) at the time of the inauguration of the 150th anniversary year( 17th May, 1992) of the Chapel.. The hindu community of the three wards, Mudd’davaddi, Tabravaddo-Mollebhatt and Donvaddo offered a brass lamp amounting to Rs. 1,330/- on 15th May 1992 as a remembrance of their participation in the inaugural ceremony of the 150th Anniversary of St. Anne’s chapel.. Mrs. Pelagia( Peggy) Mascarenhas donated 4 mass Vestments in memory of her father, the late Mr. Cupertino Fernandes( Mudd’davaddi) in July 1992. The first Vicar of Saligao, Fr. Caetano Xavier de Abreu( Panjim) who served the Saligao parish from 26th November, 1873 to September 1879, relates in his book" Seis Annos da Nossa Vida Publica ou Agruras e Consolacoes dum Paroco no Cumprimento dos Seus Deveres", Nova Goa, 1889, p. 20( a rare book), about his affection and dedication to St. Anne’s Chapel. As a parting gift, he offered to St. Anne’s chapel a relic of St. Sebastian and St. Agnes which is venerated till this day.. This list ends in 1992-1993 as given in the Chapel Books..From then on till 2004 August this list is to be updated. The names of other donors in money is displaced on the wall of the corridor of the chapel. Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas. |
