Hocus Pocus And The Mangaloreans
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Lúcio Mascarenhas, Baçaim, East Indies
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In February 2009, Hocus Pocus, the "East Indian" racist bigot and malefactor deigned to slander the Mangalorean Konkani Christians.
Hocus Pocus, this time feigning the name of "Vernon Rodrigues" wrote:
Brought up as catholics from infancy but held on assiduously to their pagan culture, inspite of embracing Catholicism, the Mangalorean / Kannada catholics are characterised by their honourable principles and exemplary conduct and enjoy a high reputation among the Hindus and Muslims with whom they live. In the past they were land-holders, merchants and tradesmen and for their superior-intelligence and fidelity were employed in offices of trust under government in preference to others.
One of the reasons Mangalore Catholics were banished from Goa was because of their attachment to Pagan marriage ceremonies. And even till today the Pre marriage ceremony called the 'Roce' is still celebrated. It is a ceremony lauded over by the ladies, celebrating the last day of the virginity of the bride and bridegroom. The virgin bride is blessed with coconut milk and a cross is inscribed on her forehead with coconut oil, while the matrons of the families sing 'voyos' tracing the family history, sometimes sneaking in a opportunity to settle old scores. But mostly the songs are good natured ribbing of the bridal pair.
The Mangalorean catholics are governed by a caste system which is akin to that of the Hindus which came from Goa with the early immigrants. The castes are Bamon (Brahmana), Charodi (Kshatriya and Vaishya), Sudra (artisan) and Gaudi (comprising local converts from the original fisher caste). Superimposed on this is another artificial division - that of the `refined` and the `rustic`. The members of the former, consisting of about two hundred families, live in the city, speak English and have adopted western dress and customs.
In the rural areas, they are deeply attached to farming either as tenant farmers or labourers. They have hardly any social life. Except for some parochial functions and weddings, christenings, Christmas, Easter and the parish feast are the only occasions when they have celebrations.
They eke out a frugal living on their farms and often have to supplement their income by petty trading and by sending their family members to cities for employment. Many Mangaloreans have also been successful as trade unionists, taxi drivers, domestic servants, writers, caterers, and managers in different spheres.
The urban members of the community are concentrated in Mangalore and are often called Mangalorean by outsiders. With the establishment of British rule, many claimed and got their property rights in the city and the district confirmed.
The prosperity of the dominant Catholic families of Mangalore since the latter half of the 19th century owed itself to the tile industry, coffee plantations and trade in plantation products. The tile industry was first introduced in Mangalore by German missionaries who kept their technology a secret and bought an entire village which had suitable clay for the manufacture of tiles. In course of time the Mangaloreans learnt the secret and so was born the famous Mangalorean tile industry. The tiles were so much in demand that the Portuguese from Goa would exchange gold for them.
Mangaloreans have helped set up colleges, schools, hospitals, leprosaria, T.B. sanatoria, and asylums and so on. An expansion of education without a corresponding expansion of employment opportunities combined with pressure on land in the rural areas led to the emigration of many Mangalorean/Kannada Catholics to cities like Mumbai.
Some of this is so utterly idiotic, remarks like that "Mangalorean tiles were so much in demand that the Portuguese from Goa would exchange gold for them" that they do not need to be addressed.
It is not true that the Mangaloreans "were banished from Goa was because of their attachment to Pagan marriage ceremonies" or because they "held on assiduously to their pagan culture."
Firstly, the Mangaloreans were not banished, nor did they flee from the Church to pagan-ruled Mangalore. On the contrary, they migrated in three distinct waves: The first at the express suggestion of the Portuguese government in Goa, and at the express request of the pagan kings of Bednore and Soonda. These pagan kings learnt of the expertise of the Goan farmers, and solicited them to open up forest lands for agriculture and thereby augment state income, while Portugal saw in this an opportunity to increase its influence within these kingdoms.
As part of the arrangement, by way of treaties, the Government of Goa had civil authority over these migrants, in order to prevent them from subsiding back into the surrounding paganism. There are no recorded rebellions by the Christians against this arrangement, or against the rule of the Portuguese out of Goa over them, the Mangaloreans, Goan migrants, in the predominantly pagan Mangalorean kingdoms of Bednore and Soonda. It was only with the Napoleonic War, and the collapse of Portugal before the Freemasons of the French Revolution, that this changed. The Mangaloreans sought to substitute Portuguese protection for English, succoring and subsidizing the English General Gordon and his Expeditionary Army sent out against Hyder Ali, and in punishment, Tipu Sultan, the Usurper of the Seringapatnam or Mysorean throne, attempted to commit a brutal genocide against them.
The second and third waves of migrations from Goa to Mangalore was in response to the terrorism of Shivaji and Sambaji, haters and murderers and rapists of Goan Christians.
The Mangaloreans began to backslide when they were forced to take refuge with Hindus from the depradations of Tipu Sultan. It is a fact that the Mangaloreans, for the larger part, zealously held on to the Archbishop of Goa, the so-called "Padroado Party," as against the "Propaganda Party" staffed by largely Englishmen bishops, or by Anglophile Irishmen. This changed due to the Pombaline Schism, and worsened by the Schism of Peter the Freemason, who displaced King Michael the Catholic from the throne of Portugal. With the clergy cast out of Goa and taking refuge from the Freemasons at Ancola, Goan priests in Mangalore took the initiative to switch from Padroado to Propaganda. This led to some extent of backsliding to paganism, as it was largely the Goan priests under the Archbishop of Goa who traditionally kept a strict line against any paganization.
The "Roce" ceremony is not practised only by Mangaloreans, but also by Goans, the mother community of the Mangaloreans. The suggestion, therefore, that it is proof of the "persistent paganism" of the Mangaloreans, who allegedly fled Goa in order to retain their alleged paganism, is nonsensical.
Background Of Mangalorean Christian History
It has become fashionable, even for Goans and Mangaloreans, to blame and denigrate the Portuguese for all their ills, both real and imagined. This attitude was first instilled by the English out of their anti-Catholic, Protestant animus against the Catholic Portuguese.
It was then adopted and cultivated by the Propaganda Party as part of the strategy to combat the Padroado Party, a foolish and self-defeating strategy which only strengthened and strengthens the Protestants and the Hindus, enemies of Christianity, and weakens Christianity itself.
The English systematically inculcated these vile ideas into Christian minds by means of state-approved school curricula, a tradition continued by Hindu India, the very foundations of the ideas of Gandhianism, Congressism, and of Hindu India itself.
This anti-Christian program was willingly aided and furthered by the Propaganda Party through Church-run schools, from their foundation and continuing to this date.
It seeks to de-Lusitanize us Christians, and to Protestantize, Westernize us.
The mythical beast of "Indian Nationalism" or Hindu Nationalism (neither are the Indians a nation, nor are the Hindus; India, in all its fullness extends from East Baluchistan in Iran, to the Philippines and East Timor, from Tibet to the Sunda Archipelago; the official name for the present Republic of India was British India, and for Indonesia, which means "Indian Islands," Dutch India, etc.), in both the Congress version, and the Sangh Parivar version, is also actually an accessory and product of Anglicanism, and has been spread through the state-approved school curricula and also by Church-run schools. The vast majority and dominant section of the leaders of the Congress and other parties, such as of the Muslim League, of the Dalits, and other factions, were educated in Church-run schools, which taught them to be good Anglican Hindus and good Anglican Muslims or Anglo-Mahomettans and Catholics as good Anglican Catholics!
It is this state-approved school system that has taught Catholics to contemn Catholicism, and has been the means for entry into Christian minds of Godlessness, Freethought, Freemasonry, Neo-Paganism, Modernist Protestantism, Darwinism, Evolutionism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, etc., as typified by the apostate and impious Goan artists Angelo Fonseca, Newton de Sousa, etc.
As such, when Hocus Pocus launched into his vile slander of the Mangaloreans, the Mangaloreans, even in countering him, have had recourse to the same idiotic and anti-Christian arguments first invented and subtly intruded into Christian minds, by the English.
One must not forget, of course, that the English were and are the agents of the Pharisees, of the Noahide program of a Jewish World Empire, and that the entire purpose of the Englishman's work and programs is to further this end. "Mahatma" Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Tagore, Gokhale, Tilak, were all Freemasons.
It is a fact that it was the Portuguese who took the initiative to indigenize Christianity according to the acceptable and redeemable aspects of native Goan culture, and that this did not arise out of any accident, or out of an effort on the part of the Goans. The Portuguese deliberately did this, and it was not only in Goa. They did it everywhere, and the Spanish too did the same everywhere, even in the Philippines and in Latin America. Thus the Philippinian custom of circumcision has been retained.
When I followed-up the ancestries of the BogusOrdian bishops of Goa, I found that the Portuguese had attempted to set up sodalities and fraternities in the Goan villages that were open to all, but that caste feelings defeated these attempts, and so they had to be content with separate, caste-based sodalities and fraternities. Are the Portuguese to be blamed for the stupidity and pigheadedness of our ancestors, newsly converted from the caste-based culture of Hinduism?
Moreover, Goan priests were sought out by the European priests in order to translate their sermons into the Concannim (Konkani) language, which belies the vile lie that Konkani was banned. As a matter of fact, it is Portugal which saved Konkani in Goa, or else, with the rest of the Konkan, Goa too would have been overrun by the Marathi colonialists and genocidists. Goan priests were made missionaries and sent out to preach and convert souls throught South Asia and further beyond, into South-East Asia, Africa and other regions. St. Goncalo Garcia was one of these Goan priests, of part-Goan, part-Norteiro origin, who was martyred by the Buddhists in Japan.
St. Jose Vaz came from Goa to Mangalore, preaching in Konkani. Nor was he the only one. There were literaly thousands of anonymous, unsung Goan priests who ministered in Mangalore and in Bombay and other parts, equally to Goan migrants as to Mangalorean migrants, and to all other Christians. It was Goan priests who held Mangalorean Christianity in unswerving fidelity to the Archbishop of Goa, and who also led the movement into the Propaganda Party, when Peter the Freemason overthrew the Saintly King Michael with the help of the English Protestants.
It is therefore a lie, and a vicious lie, to say that "the Portuguese did not have the patience to study these local customs and not tolerant to allow them to be practiced, hence they banned all these traditions and also they banned speaking Konkani, and burnt them alive whenever they did not ready to abandon."
I would like to remind the reader that it is an untruth that Goan priests blasely abandoned the Mangaloreans. Several Goan priests made surreptious journeys to succor the Mangaloreans and several of them were captured and imprisoned. It was because Hyder Ali's strategy of isolation failed due to the surreptious efforts of Goan priests, that Hyder's son Tipu decided on the direct forced apostasy of the Mangaloreans.
Moreover, it is also a lie that the Mangaloreans were steadfast in the faith, or that the majority of them returned.
Goans stood up to Shivaji and Sambaji, fighting back against these terrorists. There were a number of martyrs, especially in Colvale and Corjuem, etc. How many Mangaloreans resisted Tipu? How many martrys did the Mangaloreans produce? Is there any record? Why has there been no mention of them, even by Mangalorean Catholic historians such as Severino Silva?
Goa produced Jose Vaz and Angelo de Sousa, and they are but a few of a very large number. What did Mangalore produce?
I am not belittling the Mangaloreans, only stressing the fact that, until the Mangaloreans switched over to the Propaganda Party, they were seen, and saw themselves, as a seamless part of the larger whole, Goan Christianity, their ancestry and protection, their pledge of security and continuity. Mangaloreans since then have largely forgotten this truth, and joined the chorus of idiots badwording the Portuguese.
As for "majority" all historians, including the Mangalorean historians Severino Silva and Kranti Faria, are agreed that all of the Mangalorean captives, excepting those who hid themselves with their Hindu neighbors, were circumcised and converted to the accursed heresy of Mahomettanism, some of them resisting all the way, that the majority of the captives continued in the accursed heresy of Mahomettanism, and that only a small minority returned. There are still many Konkani-speaking Muslims in Karnataka who are descended from the forced apostates, and there is a sizeable colony of them in Pakistan. How can your lies stand up to the truth?
Again, it was Goan priests who stood up to the English and fought for the restoration of stolen properties to the returning Mangalorean Christians. Look up this issue in Severino Silva's history. One Goan priest was so persistent, that the English rounded up on him, even accusing him of forging documents to prove the true ownership of lands stolen by Tipu from the Mangalorean Christians! Is this badwording the only gratitude that some Mangaloreans have for all these Portuguese and Goans who made so many sacrifices for their ancestors?
Regards,
Lúcio Mascarenhas, Baçaim, East Indies
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