-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks for your extensive response and on your reading on Dr. >Garcia de Orta. So please tell us your views and those of the >authors you quote, on the charges why Dr. Garcia de Orta was >brought before the inquisition, beyond: >1. His sister was brought before the inquisition and tortured. >2. A vague statement that Marranos were tortured (after he was >favored by the same Portuguese authorities just a few years >before) >
Hi Gilbert, No problem. But please note that neither Alfredo nor I claimed that Orta was brought before the Inquisition while he was alive. All relevant articles that I have read mention that his bones were disinterred and burned by the inquisition because he was a crypto-Jew. I will give you the pertinent quotes from two articles that give the most extensive descriptions on him. FROM: D'Cruz IA. Garcia da Orta in Goa: pioneering tropical medicine. BMJ. 1991 Dec 21-28;303(6817):1593-4. "As personal physician to people high in Portuguese governmental and ecclesiastical hierarchies in Goa, da Orta remained protected from the clutches of the Goan branch of the Inquisition, which was as suspicious and predatory toward "new Christians" as was its Iberian counterparts. However, a year after Garcia da Orta's death his sister Catarina was burnt at the stake "as an impenitent Jewess", and in 1580 da Orta's own remains were exhumed and burnt in an auto-da-fe at Goa as posthumous punishment for being a crypto-Jew during life". FROM: Pandya SK. Medicine in Goa--a former Portuguese territory. J Postgrad Med. 1982 Jul;28(3):123-48. "Contrary to the glowing account of his last days by Gerson da Cunha,[11] d'Orta probably suffered shame and penury shortly before his death in Goa in 1568.[8] His wife had to borrow a clean sheet from the neighbours to wrap his corpse. On December 4, 1580 the final insult was provided by the Tribunal which condemned him, disinterred his bones and publicly burnt them at an auto-da-fe at the cathedral in Goa as a posthumous punishment inflicted on those Jews who had escaped the stake in their lifetime." "[8]Boxer, C. R.: "Two Pioneers of Tropical Medicine: Garcia d'Orta and Nicolas Monardes." Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London, Lecture Series No. 1, 1961. [11]Da Cunha, J. Gerson: The Origin of Bombay. J. Bom. Br. Roy. As. Soc 20: 1-368, 1897-1900. (Extra Number)." Cheers, Santosh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas cheer - even when you're not here! Send Christmas Greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 2005 Christmas Package - Flowers, Bubbles and Layers of Love. http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/xmas/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------