Goa & Mumbai Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN

Sex and scandal aren’t solely a modern fascination – Old Goa, in particular, at one time was full of it – and the graves of Garcia de Sá and Caterina a Piró, in Old Goa’s demure Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, have their own lascivious tale to tell.

Caterina a Piró, a ‘commoner’ by birth, was the first Portuguese woman to arrive in the new colony of Old Goa, apparently departing Portugal in an attempt to flee the scandal surrounding her affair with a Portuguese nobleman named Garcia de Sá. The star-crossed pair, however, were destined to meet again, when de Sá was made one of Goa’s earliest governors.

Under pressure from the newly arrived St Francis Xavier, de Sá was finally persuaded to do the honourable deed and marry Caterina, who, unfortunately, was already on her deathbed at the time. Her finely carved tomb, at a ‘respectful’ distance from Garcia’s, might suggest to some that the relationship was never exactly true love.

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