Basilica of Bom Jesus Panaji

Old Goa, Panaji , Goa, India

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    Old Goa

    ... and drinking several litres of water. The most interesting feature was the tomb of Saint Francis Xavier inside the Basilica of Bom Jesus. Apparently after his death in 1552 his body refused to rot, hence his beatification, but the question ...

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    Leaving Goa...running down the tracks

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    ... capital, Old Goa where we would catch our train.  There stood an even more impressive relic of the Portuguese, the Basilica of Bom Jesus, which holds the remains of Saint Frances Xavier.     An hour before our train left we went to ...

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    Portugese flavored Panaji

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    ... Old Goa. Price 5 cents. Only westerner aboard!! Old Goa was cool. 400 year old churches scattered within. First visited Basilica of Bom Jesus. A Roman Catholic church. The same, with a rusty colored brick exterior, houses the remains of St. Francis ...

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    Our week in Goa, India

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    ... maintained, and contain a statue of Christ. Across the highway from the cathedral is the best known church in Goa, the Basilica of Bom Jesus. Built between 1594 and 1605, the Basilica contains the remains (relic) of St. Francis Xavier, which were ...

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    Scootering to Panjim and Old Goa

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    ... town filled with the crumbling remains of old cathedrals and churches built by the Portugese. The highliht for me was the Basilica Of Bom Jesus famous throughout the Roman Catholic world for its long term resident and patron saint of Goa, St. Francis ...

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    Old Goa

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    ... who pray there. We jaunted across to the Church of St Cajetan and Viceroy’s Arch before rounding back to see the Basilica of Bom Jesus. The Basillica of Bom Jesus hosts the remains of St Francis Xavier whose body apparently did not decompose after ...

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    Panaji (Panjim) – Church City

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    ... to be a bit of “mine’s bigger than yours” going on).  The next port of call was the Basilica of Bom Jesus which is quite spectacular, but is most famous due to its’ long term resident and Goa’s patron saint, St Francis ...

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    Goa Gone

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    ... imagine that between the 16th and the 18th Centuries it was larger than London or Lisbon. All that remain now are the Basilica of Bom Jesus, where the (im)mortal remains of St Francis Xavier reside, the Church of St Francis of Assisi and the impressive ...

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    The day my bag went for a tour of Goa

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    ... the Cathedral of St Francis of Assisi to SE Cathedral round to an ice cream break and getting to the massive red brick building of The Basilica of Bom Jesus. As we wondered the streets, eventually we found a few houses, flaky as we were used to, and Jon ...