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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Maurice Mam, You mentioned that Fr. Joachim Miranda (author of famous song: Riglo Jezu Mollyant) started the Monti fest tradition. But this may not be true. The MONTI FEST tradition was started in Goa itself. But the present Goans do not celebrate Monti Fest because all the traditions of our ancestors were banned there. Even Konkani speaking was banned for few years. This is one of the main reason for our people to fled from Goa to Mangalore. This is very clear because the people living in southern parts of Maharashtra like Kudal, Savantvadi, Ratnagiri etc also celebrate Monti Fest like we Mangaloreans do. It may be possible that Fr. Joachim Miranda popularised Monti Fest in Mangalore. You have also mentioned that only one church was not destroyed by the Tippu Soldiers. This is MONTE MARIANO Church of Faragipet. The reason for not destroying the church according to Late V J P Saldanha (who wrote volumes of historical novels in Konkani on the migration of Chrsitans from Goa to Mangalore and also wrote volumes of Historical novels in Konkani about the Tippus Captivity of Canara Catholics) is that the youngsters of Farangipet or Omzoor were 'DINDE MANAY' and the Tippu's soldiers feared to touch them. 'DINDE MANAY' is also mentioned in another Gumttam Song "Sairik Yetha Mujha Duvek" which can be heard from http://konkanimusic.blogspot.com/ Thanks a lot for the beautiful article - Ancy S DSouza, Paladka On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM, MD <mmdme...@gmail.com> wrote: > MONTHI FESTH > known as the "Factory Church". On the fateful night of Ash Wednesday > February 21st 1784 upon Tippu’s cruel orders several thousands of > Kanara Christians were lead as captives to Srirangapatnam. During this > period Tippu's forces desecrated and destroyed 26 out of the 27 > churches in Kanara and Rosario Church was one of them. After return > The custom of Monthi Fest was initiated by Goa Priest, Msgr. Joachim > Miranda who was then parish priest of ‘Monthe Mariano’ convent church > at Farangipet, after his return from deportation to Malabar during > Tipu Sultan’s captivity of Canara Catholics few of whom returned home > after the defeat of Tipu in the 4th Mysore war in 1799.