The pilgrimage
Why this road exists
To venerate the relic of the patron of missions, still shown in Goa.
How the days are spent
Because lime should have eaten him, and the Church in India has never treated that as a footnote.
Old Goa
Basilica of Bom Jesus — St. Francis Xavier
The missionary who died waiting for China, packed in lime, found fresh months later. You go to the baroque basilica where Asia still files past his coffin, and to remember that the missions had a body, not only a map.
Old GoaFeast 3 December
The signs of this place
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.