NT Staff Reporter
Oct 18, 2004: The high-powered committee constituted to oversee the facilities being put in place for the St Francis Xavier Exposition, today reviewed the progress of the works and opined that all facilities would be completed by November 15.
The meeting was chaired by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar, who sought the progress reports from various sub-committees. The committee is headed by the Transport Minister, Mr Pandurang Madkaikar and Tourism Minister, Mr Mathany Saldanha is the member.
The meeting took stock of the progress of the Panaji-Old Goa road via Kadamba plateau on which the state government has spent Rs 6 crore besides another Rs 14 crore on land acquisition. Mr Parrikar recently told reporters that the government is spending an amount of Rs 40 crore from the state fund on various infrastructure projects for the Exposition.
The committee has also made preparations to accommodate 5000 pilgrims per day in and around Old Goa. The pilgrims would be accommodated in schools, besides tent accommodation.
The government has decided to purchase 30 new buses for ferrying pilgrims to Old Goa during the Exposition.
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DH News Service PANAJI, Sept 1, 2004
Putting aside speculation over the improbability of another exposition ever, Goa�s Archbishop Raul Gonsalves announced here that the 16th expostion of the relics of St. Francis Xavier would take place between November 2004 and January 2005.
The last exposition was held in in November 1994. The first ever took place 221 years ago in 1782.
It was after serious deterioration was noted in the once �incorruptible� remains of the saint that church authorities allowed the exposition only once a decade.
Four and half centuries after his death, Francis Xavier, adopted as patron saint of this former centre of Catholicism in the East, still commands a huge following. Over a million people are estimated to have come to Old Goa for the 1994 exposition.
Of Spanish aristocratic descent, Xavier arrived in Goa � a Portuguese enclave at the time � in 1542, as a Jesuit missionary.
Curiously, of the ten years he spent in Asia till his death on December 3, 1552, he is said to have been to Goa five times, spending altogether just 18 months in a place that would bring him more recognition in death than in life.
Xavier died on the island of Sancian, off the Chinese mainland, where his body was discovered two and half months later, completely intact.
The body was brought to Goa in 1554 and buried at the altar of the Church of St. Paul. It was shifted to its final resting place at the Basilica de Bom Jesus in 1624 after he was canonised.
The saint�s relics lie today in a sealed glass urn that rests in a silver casket. The casket, which stands on a Florentine mausoleum, is lowered at every exposition and the urn brought out for veneration.
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