with Portuguese Catholicism in Goa, the Church did frame and enforce their rules amongst the new converts, It is a fact that there existed ancient Christianity in Goa (reference …that there existed pre-Portuguese Nasranis Christianity in Goa) but it can be inferred that the Royals of Velliapura through out Portuguese history angled themselves to please the Church. There is enough evidence they modified their historical building in Velliapura to please the Church representative (refer to Dr.B D Satoskar in 1982 Map of Velli where the Kadamba architectural ornaments were found dumped). Cannot be proved though, they even encouraged conversions of locals, influencing them by giving their own surnames.
The Goan Catholic Church on the other hand consciously or unconsciously took part in the celebrations of some of the ancient Kadamba festivals like the blessing of both the Kadamba harbours located by the peripheries of the Velliapura Southern Capital Headquarters, namely the natural harbour of Barradi,Betul and Kutban. Refer to the information in Goa archives that throughout his tenure as Vigar, Velim Irgoge Padre Santimano accompanied by Senor Ave Leao (Portuguese - meaning the lion of Ave Maria) did the blessing of both the harbours at the onset of the new sea harvest season. Senor Ave Maria is referred as the 40th successor is the father of Roque Santan. We can comfortably say that the Velliapura family being catholic did pay their respect according to their faith so also the coterie who came across the Ghats did pay their respects according to their ancient traditional practice. Therefore such a thing does not arise that the Catholic Church will have some objection regarding secrets of Velliapura family. Original research by Andrew. Siyona wrote:…. Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 From: Siyona G Gaunkar <siy...@ymail.com> To: "goa...@goanet.org" <goa...@goanet.org>, …… could be the Catholic church bring in some dispute with the Velliapura family for still harbouring this, will the long arm of the church come after this family with some motion of censure (write to me here on Goanet or privately to my email pls.)