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3 unusual facts about Rachol Seminary


Rachol Seminary

The College was thus reopened, and its management was entrusted to the Congregation of the Mission, popularly called Vincentians or Lazarists.

The chorus of Te Deum laudamus, sung by those gathered in the Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa, was a fitting finale of thanksgiving to the Most Holy Trinity for the 400 years of service that Rachol has rendered to the Church in Goa and to humanity at large.

Agnelo Gustavo Adolfo de Souza, sfx, (popularly called Padr. Agnel) who underwent his priestly formation at was ordained at the Rachol Seminary, later joined the Society of Pilar, spent the last 10 years of his life as Confessor and Spiritual Director of the seminarians at Rachol, and breathed his last in his room in the Seminary.



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