Asks Ana Maria Fernandes (June 14 ) . Methinks the question should rather be ''What kind of Christian are you ? '' Jesus Christ preached between 30 and 33 AD. After his death , his doctrines were avidly followed not in Judaea but in Rome itself where the socalled slaves (people from various parts of the empire i.e. lands around the Mediterranean Sea ) accepted Christianity and rallied round it to fight the official Roman religion of sunworship. It remained an underground movement in catacombs for the next 300 years when in 325 AD Roman Emperor Constantine convened a Council (of all religious sects) in Nicaea ( a town in Asia MInor -Turkey) and proclaimed Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire.
>From 325 AD to 1510 the Portuguese Christianity was no doubt,purer than the pure Christianity in Rome. So it was pure Christian doctrines that were imposed upon Goans. But then the Christianity became somewhat blemished in the hands of our glorious bahmon padris who retained the Hindo caste system through religious organization called confraria.