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The birth of Catholicism in Goa

If you are interested in the above subject Google Wikipedia: Goan Catholics, below is an excerpt. Main article: History of Goan Catholics Pre-Portuguese era [ edit ] It was believed until recently that there was no concrete evidence that Christianity prevailed in Goa before the Portuguese arrived, but it was believed that St. Bartholomew , one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, brought the Gospel and spread it in Konkan , including Goa, just as St. Thomas had done in Kerala and Tamil Nadu , in Southern India . [23] However, the work of the historian Jose Cosme Costa, Apostolic Christianity in Goa and in the West Coast (Pilar, Goa: Xavierian Publication Society, 2009), makes a case for the existence of Christianity in Goa before the arrival of the Portuguese. He speaks of Goa as a trading centre with the Middle East and with Rome). He suggests that the Apostle Thomas might have made his way over land from northern India to Kerala. He also examines the evidence of the ...

A piece of colonial Kenyan history: NFD sliced from Somalia

I have no idea how I came by this, or who the author is. However, I am grateful to the source and the author. K ENYA COLONY, or, as it used to be called, British East Africa, is a tropical possession of the British Empire situated right on the Equator. Topographically it may be divided into three main sections. The northernmost of these, consisting largely of desert and unproductive soil, may be ignored for the purposes of this discussion; the value of the Colony both actual and prospective lies in the south between the island of Mombassa on the Indian Ocean and the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The second main section consists of the actual sea coast (including Mombassa) and its immediate hinterland. As we go westward from the coast we pass through this low lying belt into the third section, which gradually rises until it becomes a high tableland at an average elevation of some 5,000 feet. It falls again to the shores of the great lake, though by no means to sea level. Nairobi, ...