Team Herald
MARGAO: Well known evangelist of Goan origin Fr Conceicao D’Silva died of a massive cardiac arrest early Sunday morning just few days before celebrating his 66th birthday.
His funeral will be held on February 8, at the St Michael’s Church, Orlim at 4 pm.
He was born to Mousinho D’Silva and Luzia Pereira on February 13, 1955.
Since Fr Conceicao was serving as the parish priest of Our Lady of Snows Church at Raia, a mass will be held at 10 am there and his body, which is kept at his ancestral house at Orlim, will be taken to Raia for Mass before being brought back to Orlim for the funeral.
Fr Conceicao was ordained as a priest on May 7, 1983 at Orlim church and his first appointment was as assistant parish priest at Holy Cross Church, Verna. He was then posted at Tilamol and Calangute and at all three places he established parish youth associations and strengthened them.
He was later posted as a chaplain at Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel, Ambelim in 1995 and this is when his mission of evangelisation began after he attended a retreat at Kerala along with some youth from Ambelim. He started a prayer service at Ambelim, which attracted thousands of devotees and this continued at each place where he served.
From Ambelim he was transferred to Mandur, Carambolim, Taleigao and lastly to Raia and what is significant is that he renovated the old churches at Mandur and Carambolim besides literally rebuilding the Ambelim chapel.
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