MARGAO: A more than 50-page souvenir will be officially commissioned on November 23, at Madicotto, Cuncolim after the solemn mass which will commence at 4.30 pm to commemorate the 100th year of the construction of the St Francis Chapel. The souvenir is specially published for the occasion.
The souvenir besides having a message by Archbishop of Goa will also have an article written by Dr Sr Emma Maria AC tracing the history of this century old chapel that was built by some local people. Besides, there will be articles written by Dr Jorson Fernandes and Sr Superior of Maria Bambina Convent.
The centenary celebration mass will be celebrated by Fr Roland Coelho SJ, who is the provincial of Jesuits fathers in Goa.
The chapel was constructed on November 23, 1919 by a few local people to commemorate the historic relevance of the chapel and it was constructed in such a way as to include the well where the bodies of the five Jesuits, who were killed in 1583, were dumped and covered with leaves.
The well where the bodies were dumped is now not only enclosed by the chapel but it is also covered with a marble plaque where the importance of the well is engraved in Portuguese which reads as follows: “In this well were thrown the bodies of the Blessed Martyrs for three days the blood flowed emitting celestial aroma.”
