Dheeraj
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Old Goa, what Portuguese called Velha Goa and what oldies call pornem Goy was established by the Bijapur Sultanate in the 15th century AD. And later made capital and developed as metropolis by Portuguese. If you simply walk around looking at majestic structures that still stand, some fully and some in ruins, you can feel the grandeur of architecture and can imagine and feel what it must have been in those times. At its peak it was known as the "Rome of the East" for its opulent churches and convents and this continued until the plague happened and then it got abandoned. Portuguese shifted their capital to Panaji then...
St Francis Xavier was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who arrived in Goa in 1542. He died in 1552 on Sancian Island, off the coast of Guangdong province in China. His relics are enshrined in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa.
Locally St Francis is regarded as the "Goencho Saib (Protector of Goa)". Recently a BJP member took offence to this. While demanding for the DNA test of his relics, Velingkar had said that the saint could not be called “Goencho Saib (Protector of Goa)”. People resisted of course...
#goa #india #Portuguese
St Francis Xavier was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who arrived in Goa in 1542. He died in 1552 on Sancian Island, off the coast of Guangdong province in China. His relics are enshrined in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa.
Locally St Francis is regarded as the "Goencho Saib (Protector of Goa)". Recently a BJP member took offence to this. While demanding for the DNA test of his relics, Velingkar had said that the saint could not be called “Goencho Saib (Protector of Goa)”. People resisted of course...
#goa #india #Portuguese
