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...This description is of Goa on May 6, 1542, the day the missionary St. Francis Xavier first set foot on the Indian subcontinent. Four hundred and sixty-two years later, you can still find some in the backpacker idyll to whom Coleridge's words apply. But the suggestion that the Jesuit adventurer had little lasting influence is at odds with events this month in the former Portuguese colony. For 43 days until Jan. 2, a continuous procession of 2 million people will shuffle past Xavier's body?which is believed by the faithful to be miraculously uncorrupted since...
...introduced the Inquisition. The visible manifestation of his legacy today is mixed; St. Francis Xavier schools and churches dot his route from southern India to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, but so do Xavier furniture warehouses, bus companies and even, on a beach in northern Goa, Xavier's Rum Pub. The one institution he did build himself, St. Paul's College in Old Goa, is now a forgotten ruin long devoured by jungle...
...Southern India and Sri Lanka: Posh travel company Abercrombie & Kent would like the pleasure of your company on a visit to Cochin, Goa, Panjim, Malvan and Mumbai on a Hebridean Island Cruises boat for 16 nights (departs Dec. 18). A representative for A&K says that the vessel feels more like a "floating five-star country-house hotel" than a cruise ship. From $8,785 to $16,993 for a two-person cabin. tel: (44-0845) 0700 606; www.abercrombiekent.co.uk...
...luxurious riverboat, and a hot-air balloon ride over the golden temples of Bagan. $5,595 per person, $850 supplement. tel: (1-800) 678 1147; www.butterfield.com Southern India and Sri Lanka: Posh travel company Abercrombie & Kent would like the pleasure of your company on a visit to Cochin, Goa, Panjim, Malvan and Mumbai on a Hebridean Island Cruises boat for 16 nights (departs Dec. 18). A representative for A&K says that the vessel feels more like a "floating five-star country-house hotel" than a cruise ship. From $8,785 to $16,993 for a two-person cabin...
...Wilfred-Dona contest. As the crowds started booing, the winning scores in both matches ballooned to basketball proportions. By the final whistle, Wilfred had racked up a 55-1 win, while Curtorim had triumphed 61-1. "It's unbelievable, it's disgraceful," fumed Savio Messias, secretary of the Goa Football Association. "This is a case of intense village rivalry taken to absurd levels." All four teams have been suspended from playing for a year, and India's National Football Association is mulling a life ban for everybody involved. Curtorim's general secretary Arnold D'Costa quit. But his Wilfred counterpart...