[Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-24 Thread Antonio Menezes
The humble folk in Goa have great faith in St. Anthony which can be summed as follows; ''' Toh amche gorjek pavta'''

Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-23 Thread lyrawmn
sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:47:45 To: roland.fran...@gmail.com; estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing listgoanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony -- On Tue, 6/21/11, roland.fran...@gmail.com

[Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-22 Thread Michael Ali
Here in Karachi too St. Anthony is the most popular saint for the Goan community and his feast is celebrated in a big way on June 13. The following Sunday a hugely popular fete is held at St. Anthony's Church. Michael

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2011-06-22 Thread lyrawmn
-- On Tue, 6/21/11, roland.fran...@gmail.com roland.fran...@gmail.com wrote:  Why undoubtedly is Anthony the most popular saint in Goa? One would have thought that Francis Xavier (Goencho Saib) would qualify for that popular saint sobriquet.  Comment:   Do you think the Catholic Goan males

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2011-06-22 Thread roland . francis
listgoanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony -- On Tue, 6/21/11, roland.fran...@gmail.com roland.fran...@gmail.com wrote:  Why undoubtedly is Anthony the most popular saint in Goa? One would have thought that Francis Xavier (Goencho Saib) would qualify for that popular saint

[Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-21 Thread Antonio Menezes
According to JoeGoaUK , the dates the feast of St Anthony was celebrated last year, this year and the one in the next year are 13th June, 19th June and 17th June respectively. Very interesting indeed, since all these digits are prime numbers i.e. not divisible by any other numbers. St. Anthony

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2011-06-21 Thread roland . francis
sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: Antonio Menezes ac.mene...@gmail.com Sender: goanet-bounces@lists.goanet.orgDate: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:15:32 To: goanetgoa...@goanet.org Reply-To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Feast of St

Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-21 Thread Edward Verdes
Tks Antonio bab, I have also heard a Konkani song St. Anton Milagrincho sung by Remmie Colaco In this song he says that feast of St. Anthony is celebrated on 15th Feb. in a Colva Tisro vaddo Kopel. In this song he also says about how a child was born to a childless hindu family after

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2011-06-21 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Dear AM, You freaked me out by talking about prime numbers, St Anthony, the politics of sainthood, and our Goa villages... all in one breath! The other guy who did the same (even more intentionally) in the past week was Dilip D'Souza, the son of former Mumbai municipal commissioner J.B. D'Souza.