www.goa-world. com >GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)® www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ > >Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday >someone, somewhere learns a little..... >___________________________________ > >Goa church to invite pope for St. Francis’ exposition > > >It plans to invite him for the 2014 exposition of pioneering Jesuit St. >Francis Xavier. > >Goa, April 02, 2013: The Goa Catholic Church is planning to invite Pope >Francis for the 2014 exposition of pioneering Jesuit St. Francis Xavier. >“The chances of the first Jesuit pontiff arriving in the beach tourism >oriented state are healthy,” said Fr. Savio Barretto, rector of the Basilica >of Bom Jesus wehre the mortal remains of the saint are kept. >He said that they have received many enquiries to call His Holiness for the >event. >“We will be calling him (pope) and request the central government to formally >make a request to the Vatican city also,” he said. >The event, which is known as the exposition, is due in November 2014. >“The chances of Pope Francis coming for the exposition look good because he >may not even need an invitation to visit the resting place of his fellow >Jesuit brother,” the priest said. >St. Francis Xavier, who hailed from Navarra in the Basque region of Spain, >heralded Christianity in Goa in the early 1500s. >After his death in 1552 in Shangchuan, China, his body was first ferried to >Malacca, which is a city in Malaysia, and later stored in 1553 in the grand >Basilica of Bom Jesus. >Believers regard it as a miracle that the body has survived for nearly 500 >years, while skeptics have historically argued that the mortal remains of the >saint have been embalmed to ensure its survival. >Every year, more than a million believers throng the church complex in Old >Goa, located a short distance from here. >Once in a decade, the church arranges for the devotees to see the saint’s >remains in a glass-topped silver casket. >Catholics account for nearly 25 percent of the state’s population of 1.4 >million. >- oneindia > > > >- Forwarded by gaspar almeida, http://www.goa-world.com/ >___________________________________ > >The First Online Konkani Music Station - Started on March 14, 2000 by Ulysses >Menezes & Gaspar Almeida, http://www.live365.com/stations/61664 Email: >goaworldto...@yahoo.com >Konkani Video on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/uly334 >http://goablog100.blogspot.com/ >http://www.targetgoa.com/ http://www.konkanfruitfest.com/ >http://www.tiatracademygoa.com/ >www.goa-world.com/expressions/ http://www.oheraldo.in/ >http://www.q8india.com/ http://www.mangalorean.com/
