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The parish of Holy Trinity Church, Nagoa-Bardez, will commemorate its long and cherished history of 450 years on May 30, the feast of Holy Trinity. Archbishop Felipe Neri Ferrao will preside over the solemn Mass at 5.15 p.m. with all the former parish priests participating in the concelebration.

The Holy Trinity parishioners thus bring to fruitful culmination the year-long celebrations to mark the 450th anniversary of the institution of their church. Way back in 1560, the vibrant Nagoa parish, second to build its own church in Bardez after the one at Reis Magos, held jurisdiction over a vast area covering several villages of Bardez – Nagoa, Arpora, Baga, Saligao, Parra, Anjuna, Assagao, Siolim and Oxel.
In the early years of Christianity, the parishioners from the respective villages would come to Nagoa for church services,  sacraments and burial. In fact, even people from Sawantvadi, across Goa’s northern borders, brought their dead to Nagoa for burial, it is said. 
Over the years, however, as the Christian flock increased, the villages set up their own spiritual headquarters in the local church, and today there are ten (10) beautiful churches altogether, where there was just a lone church way back in the mid sixteenth century. Nagoa, Arpora and Baga are the only three villages which still stand together as one parish.
Towards the end of the Mass, Archbishop Felipe Neri Ferrao will release a couple of publications brought out by the Holy Trinity parish to mark the auspicious occasion. The first will be a special issue of the parish magazine “Svas” while the other will be a commemorative book “Goa’s Own Trinity”, which covers assorted aspects of the historic Nagoa parish of Holy Trinity. Penned by Joel D’Souza as a tribute to his former parish, the informative book is replete with relevant photographs besides several illustrations and caricatures by well-known cartoonist Alexyz.