You could well be right, Bwana as, the following year(1926), he came down to Mombasa to officiate at the wedding of my parents! I have a note of this somewhere in my 'saved documents' which I can't just find now! What a big crowd at your grandparent's wedding. Wonder who coped with the catering - feeding the five thousand??! Couldn't spot my granduncle in the photo although it is quite likely he was there. Cheers.
Mzee Mervyn On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 00:18, Mervyn Lobo <mervynal...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Bwana Mervyn, > > Judging from the dates, you granduncle could have been the one who > officiated my grandparents wedding in Zanzibar in 1925. Here is a picture > of the wedding guests outside St. Josephs Cathedral. I am not sure if Fr. > D'sa is in the picture. > > > You have always been unpretentious but I do know that the bother of Fr. > D'sa - your grandfather - was awarded The Brilliant Star of Zanzibar by the > Sultan. Among other Goans I know who received the same award are D.B. > Pereira - the first of our family to settle there, his son and his > son-in-law i.e. my grandfather. That award stopped after the revolution. > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/45002663@N00/albums/72157718243218893 > > The other Mervyn > > > > > On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 02:14:58 p.m. CST, Mervyn Maciel < > mervynels.watuwasha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Adolfo. > My granduncle, Fr. Lucien D'Sa returned to Goa > after his missionary service in East Africa and > in fact died in Goa. He is buried in our village > cemetery in Moira. > Best. > > > Mervyn M. > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 19:41, Adolfo Mascarenhas <adca...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Would you believe it ....there was a GOAN WHITE FATHER (This is the first > time I am hearing of a coloured White Father) The order started in French > North Africa and they were dressed in Black. The picture I saw of this > remarkable Goan White Father, was he was seated in a human drawn Rickshaw > .....The pullers of the two wheeler were all Moslems ....turbaned or > fezzed. > The Priest was called Fr. Lucien D'sa. ...His name even appeared in the > the Zanzibar Gazette of 1910 ...This meant that he could officiate at > Catholic Marriages etc ...... > > Where did he go after Zanzibar ....to the Mainland or to Goa > .. > :::: I personally own a great deal to Fr. Walsh, from Eire. who was an > Irish White Father and a real nationalist. I do not know how my Father > knew Father Walsh, but we went to see him, he suggested that I could get a > degree from University of London, without going to London, just as we did > our Cambridge School Certificate without going to Cambridge !!! That > brought a whole lot of Goans from DSM ...Father Walsh advised President > Julius Nyerere. Being Irish he was friendly with the 5 Irish Fathers in > Pugu Secondary School. ...that was where I was the Geographer Master > ...teaching the first crop of Tanzania 7 students for their Cambridge A > level. What a crop ...3 of them became Judges, one a Government Verifier in > Treasury, one Head of National Development Corporation/etc .....It is not > what you teach its how you encourage students to think ....I picked a blade > of grass and I asked them what was its name ...only one Maasai knew its > name but the students knew a great deal about the vegetation of Great > Britain...It was not only colonization of the land but also the mind. > So who was this Goan White Father .... > > Adolfo ... > Makongo Juu > PS .Now I get it The Goan White Father ..the French built the Church in > Zanzibar ..The French were impressed by the Goan Photographers ...and there > were more Goan Parishioners than French, English, or German .its very much > like the Church in Bagamoyo ....I lived there when I was 7 ears old > >