30 Facts About Mangalorean Catholics

Mangalorean Catholics are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians adhering to the Latin Rite of worship, from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore, of the erstwhile South Canara area, by the southwestern coast of present-day Karnataka.

Mangalorean Catholics then travelled to Bhatkal in North Canara, a port town on the coastal route from Thana to Quilon.

Mangalorean Catholics named the islands El Padron de Santa Maria; they later came to be known as St Mary's Islands.

Mangalorean Catholics discovered that the newly converted Christians were practising their old Hindu customs and traditions.

Mangalorean Catholics requested the Portuguese king Joao III to install an Inquisition in Goa in 1545.

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Mangalorean Catholics evinced great interest in the development of agriculture in his empire and welcomed these agriculturists to his kingdom, giving them fertile lands to cultivate.

Mangalorean Catholics further managed to persuade the bishop to delegate his jurisdiction to him while retaining the post.

Mangalorean Catholics attacked Goa in 1571 and ended Portuguese influence in the region.

Subsequent to this steady rise in South Canara's Catholic population, the Portuguese took advantage of every opportunity to extend their control over the Mangalorean Catholics, who came to be identified with Portuguese interests.

Relations between the Wodeyars and the Mangalorean Catholics improved until 1717, when there was an anti-Christian outburst.

The Portuguese officer suggested the death penalty for those Mangalorean Catholics who helped the British, because it was a fitting punishment for people who betrayed the sovereign.

Mangalorean Catholics issued orders to seize the Christians in Canara, confiscate their estates, and deport them to Seringapatam, through the Jamalabad fort route.

Ludwig von Pastor, a German historian, claimed "countless" Mangalorean Catholics were hanged, including women with their children clinging around their necks.

Mangalorean Catholics passed three orders in respect of the estates of the Christians, which were taken over by non-Christians during the captivity.

Mangalorean Catholics took interest in the re-establishment of the community from 1799 to 1808.

Mangalorean Catholics took an active part in the restoration of the Catholic community's former possessions and the recovery of its estates.

Mangalorean Catholics constructed a church for them, which was completed in 1806.

Many Mangalorean Catholics did not accept the leadership of Carvalho but instead submitted to the Vicar Apostolic of Verapoly in Travancore, while some of them continued to be under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman.

Under the leadership of Joachim Pius Noronha, a Mangalorean Catholic priest, and John Joseph Saldanha, a Mangalorean Catholic judge, the Mangalorean Catholics sent a petition to the Holy See in 1840 to establish Mangalore as a separate Vicariate.

Many Mangalorean Catholics are found in Persian Gulf Arab states in the Middle East.

Since then, Mangalorean Catholics have been actively involved in manufacturing the tiles.

Mangalorean Catholics speak the Konkani language, which they have retained as their mother tongue despite the migration; the language is central to the community's identity.

Mangalorean Catholics published a book on Konkani grammar in 1882, with a revised version in 1893.

Mangalorean Catholics have retained many Indian customs and traditions; these are especially visible during the celebration of a marriage.

The Mangalorean Catholics have no uniform rituals since they belong to both the patrilineal Brahmin stock and to the matrilineal non-Brahmin stock.

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Mangalorean Catholics wore a pair of sandals or at least a pair of socks.

Mangalorean Catholics retained the same caste system as their ancestors in Goa.

Mangalorean Catholics constituted a small community widely scattered across the South Canara district.

Mangalorean Catholics would invite their Hindu cousins to festivities such as birth celebrations, weddings, and funeral feasts.

Unlike his Hindu counterpart, a high-caste Mangalorean Catholics Catholic did not consider himself polluted upon physical contact with a member of the lower caste, but members of different castes did not fraternise or invite each other home for dinner.