This apocryphal story needs to be told and retold. In Benaulim village , there was this high class as well as high caste beatin ( in Portuguese - Beata ) who was a devout Catholic. She attended mass regularly said her prayers faithfully including innumerable recitation of rosaries, followed all the don'ts that the church had imposed like prohibition of eating meat on lenten fridays etc. She was not to be easily enticed by papal bulls that made exceptions to following certain rules.
Now this elderly spinster laying dying in bed and kept on repeating ''Jezu tum maca pau' ( Lord Jesus have mercy on my soul ). But just before she kicked the bucket her last words , however, were: 'Punn, Jezu, to tevoia-lo cheddo nuim ! '' (But Jesus was the son a carpenter. wasn't He ! )
