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nigelmarkdias (69)in #carnival • 6 years ago (edited)

Fun contest. @SteemitBoard
Here’s my entry.
Steemit Carnival Challenge: Viva São João

6 years ago in #carnival by nigelmarkdias (69)

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nigelmarkdias (69) 6 years ago (edited)

São João is a Catholic festival celebrated in Goa.
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forykw (64) 6 years ago

Probably a Portuguese thing... not sure... do you know Dias? I have kind of lost some of the historical references I studied, unfortunately.

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nigelmarkdias (69) 6 years ago (edited)

Probably a Portuguese thing... not sure... do you know Dias?
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Would be of Portuguese origin. @forykw
The Portuguese brought Catholicism to Goa.

São João is a Catholic festival celebrated in Goa in an unusual manner, with devotees leaping into, and swimming in, domestic drinking water wells, as a form of tribute to St. John the Baptist. It is organised on June 24 each year.
While the feast of Sao Joao is celebrated across the Catholic world on the same day, Goa is the only place in the world where it is marked by leaping into wells.
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