Nothing remains of the Church
of the Carmelites excepting the façade
and a raised pavement, which served as an altar.
Its location is to the southeast of the Church
of St. Cajetan and is on a hill more or less
contiguous to the hill on which the Chapel
of Our Lady of the Mount stands.
The church
was built in 1621. The Carmelites, on their
refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance to
the king, were expelled from Goa in 1707.
The
church fell into disuse and ruins soon after.
Like the Augustinians and Servites, the Carmelites
are the oft-forgotten mendicants, overshadowed
by the Preachers and Little Brothers. He made
his religious profession in 1855, in the congregation
he founded.
In 1861 he was named vicar-general
for the Syro-Malabar church; in this capacity
he defended ecclesial unity threatened by schism
when mar Tomas Rochos was sent from Mesopotamia
to consecrate Nestorian bishops. Throughout his
life he worked for the renewal of the church
in Malabar. |
