Inquisition of Goa and role of so called Saint Francis Xavier.
( A controversy regarding the deadbody of Francis Xavier).
In 1545 Francis Xavier, frustrated – wrote to Rome (this letter is preserved) and to the King –
“The Hindus are an unholy race. They are liars and cheats to the very backbone. Their idols are black – as black as black can be – ugly and horrible to look at, smeared with oil and smell in a evil manner.”
He then formally ordered the Portugese Inquisition fo Goa, which ran from 1516 to 1812. The rest of Europe had terminated the Inquisition in 1774. It stopped in 1812 due to British intervention.
More than 20000 people were brought under trial by this Inquisition.
The Portugese first started off with high ranking Saraswat Brahmin Hindus who held the land and riches. Who ever was caught in a palanquin had to undergo the brutal inquisition.
They were NOT allowed to wear the Shendi (hair tuft), have a Tulsi plant in front of their house, wear the sacred thread, have an idol in their homes, wear sandals, read the Vedas etc.
This drove all of them away from Goa, leaving the land behind. Some of them unwillingly converted into Christianity.
Fillippo Sassetti, an Italian merchant from Florence, has chronicled everything. He was the first European to learn Sanskrit. His views were NOT the jaundiced views of a white man. Between 1578 and 1588 he had sent a huge number of letters to the grand ducal court in Florence – all about the Portugese inquisition and the Indian view point.
“The fathers of the Church forbade the Hindus under terrible penalties the use of their own sacred books, and prevented them from all exercise of their religion. They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers.”
wrote Filippo Sassetti.(below)
On 11th Dec 1553, Xavier’s dead body was shipped from China to Goa.
The Pope’s propaganda has caught on that viewing his dead embalmed body can bring miraculous good fortune and can heal you of all your ailments. Why not? He has converted more people to Christianity than any of Jesus’s disciples.
The “Vatican Poster boy’s” embalmed body lies in Goa and is exposed to the public every 10 years – the last was in Dec 2002. Two million of the faithful has descended on Goa for a month.
The Vatican has been ignoring demands from the descendants of a Buddhist monk for a DNA test – who claim that the body is of a Sri Lankan monk. The body was switched after the arrogant Captain of the Portugese ship threw it overboard. The monk had died due to consumption of a rare herb. The preserved body of the monk was snatched by Portugese soldiers, dressed up in catholic priest garb and brought to Goa. There is a witness to this – Francis Xavier’s own converted servant he took from my hometown Calicut, by the name of Christopher.
Xavier was a tall white man – the body is of a small dark man. The bullshit given is that his body was put in lime, in China – so the great appearance change. DNA test never lies!!
And lime does NOT convert white skin to a uniform brown texture!!!
When India became independent in 1947, Goa remained under Portuguese control. The Indian government of Nehru insisted that Goa, along with a few other minor Portuguese holdings, be turned over to India. Portugal, however, refused. France, which also had small enclaves in India (Pondicherry), gave them up. On December 16, 1961, Indian troops crossed the border into Goa. Code named “Operation Vijay”, the move involved sustained land, sea, and air strikes for more than 36 hours; it resulted in the unconditional surrender of Portuguese forces on 19 December.
A United Nations resolution condemning the invasion was proposed by the United States and the United Kingdom in the United Nations Security Council, but it was vetoed by the USSR.
Despite this Portugal tried sending their Navy (with blessings of USA and UK) – and President Nasser of Egypt promptly shut the Suez Canal.
Indians have still NOT forgotten such favours.
How many of you know that Roman Italian Inquisition started only in 1545, with the Indians in Goa, when Francis Xavier impressed on Pope Paul III, the urgent need to punish the filthy pestilent Indians, worshiping evil back stones and following false doctrines. The same Inquisition blinded Galileo in 1633.. All under investigation had to wear a huge red X symbol on their dress.
It was Pope Paul III who restarted slavery in Rome, by repealing a timeless law that slaves could claim their freedom at the Emperor’s statue at Capitol hill. After this all Muslims, man and woman, became slaves, automatically. This sick man made his grandsons cardinals even before the age of 14.
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