St Gonsalo Garcia was born in 1556 and did missionary work in Japan before being martyred in 1597. He was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 1862. MUMBAI: The first Indian to attain ...

Mumbai: Mumbai's East Indian community observed Thursday, February 6, as 'St Gonsalo Garcia Day' in honour of the Roman ...

Barely forty years after St Francis Xavier planted the faith in Japan ... Kisai was well-known as a catechist, and was arrested together with Paul Miki. Gonsalo Garcia was a Franciscan brother, born ...

Act of vandalism against the parish of St Gonsalo Garcia. While the police carried out the investigation, people gathered outside the gates to pray. Archbishop Felix Machado: 'I urge everyone to ...

After years of struggle to acquire land, the city's East Indians will build a chapel in honour of St Gonsalo Garcia, the first Indian Roman Catholic saint from Vasai. A statue of Saint Gonsalo ...

Photo Courtesy: Nascimento Pinto/mid-day “I feel that there are not many Mumbaikars who know much about Saint Gonsalo Garcia,” expresses Father Rajesh Lopes, who is associated with Saint ...

The first Indian to attain sainthood hails from a village in Vasai near Mumbai. St Gonsalo Garcia was born in 1556 and did missionary work in Japan before being martyred in 1597. MUMBAI ...