January 26th, 2009 at 4:44 pm (Famous People, History, Village Matters)
by Joe Fernandes, with Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas and Emily D’Souza
[May 1993]
In the Etimos das Aldeias by Canon F X Vaz in Oriente Portugues (1916 and 1920) MUDDAVADDI means hamlet on the mound or knoll. It is interesting to note that Muddavaddi is called Dactembatta. It is also called Sucalbattulem. St Anne’s chapel documents of 1876, the earliest baptism register of the Nagoa Church and the map of Saligao designed by Joao Salustino de Souza in 1923 all indicate the ward of Muddavaddi.
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January 16th, 2009 at 4:12 pm (Folklore)
by Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas
It was the second week of May in the year 1952 that Padre Inácio Lourenço Pereira was appointed as supervisor of the construction of the Saligao-Pilerne Seminary (Seminary of Our Lady). He hailed from Albutriel in Portugal (Diocese of Leiria), the place where Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children at Fatima. He was a missionary along with his priest brother working in Madras-Mylapore diocese. He replaced Fr Paulo Arcanjo Menezes from Sangolda, who from 1936 to 1952 was in charge of building of the Diocesan Minor Seminary. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pm (Folklore)
Joseph Furtado, the Goan poet from the neighbouring village of Pilerne down the hill, whose lyrical and dramatic poems of ecstatic naiveté received appreciative recognition from no less a literary critic than Sir Edmund Gosse, composed a vivid ballad entitled “The Cobra Woman”, the ghost on Saligao hill, in his book Selected Poems.
Joseph had his early grounding in Latin, Portuguese and elementary arithmetic in Saligao over 115 years ago in a school called ‘Escola de Padre Ladru’.
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