---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anthony Vaz <anthonygoemkar at yahoo.co.in> Date: Mar 18, 2006 2:22 PM
People of Macasana, a village in South Goa, who went to the church for the daily morning mass on Saturday were in for a shock. As the congregation was waiting for the parish priest to enter the church for the 6.30 am mass, they found that neither the priest nor the sacristan were down from their residence. A panicky crowd gather outside the residence of the priest, Fr. Eusebio Ferrao and some ventured to the first floor parapet of the priest residence. On breaking a window pane they saw the priest lying on the floor. The sacristan cum cook of the priest was locked in an adjacent room. As per the information available, it seems that two youth from UP who were apparently known to the priest had visited the priest late on Friday night. They had come by the last bus at around 9.00 p.m. and the priest was apparently aware that they will be visiting him. They had dinner together and had gone to sleep. Some time during the middle of night they went into the priest's cabin and smothered him with a pillow and vanished from the premises after locking the priest's residence door from outside. Fr. Ferrao was a well known Konkanni writer and used to write regularly on Gulab Magazine and Vaurreadeancho Ixtt Weekly. In the latest issue of Vaurreadeancho Ixtt he had written an article on the Sanvordem Communal riots. Just a few days after the desecration of a cross at Comba in Margao this is another event which has shocked the Catholic community in Goa. Police Investigations are going on. Anthony Vaz from Macasana, Goa -------------------------------------------------------------------- Read all Goanet messages at: http://www.goanet.org/archive.php?name=News&list=goanet
