SE Cathedral or SE Catedral de Santa Catarina is the Latin Rite RC Cathedral of Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. This cathedral is a famous landmark built with Portuguese Manueline style. The church is 76 m in length and the frontispiece is around 35 m high. This Church was built by Portuguese, who was ruling Goa during that reign. This church is considered as the largest one in the continent.
History of SE Cathedral
The word ‘Se’ means ‘see’. It was a symbolic structure built to showcase the Portuguese’s victory over an invading Muslim army in the early 16 th century. The exact day of that victory is celebrated as the Feast of Saint Catherine, in this church. For the construction, the expenses were tallied by funds procured by selling Crown’s properties.
In the mid of 15 th century, the then-governor of Goa started to enlarge the structure and the construction was completed in mid of 17 th century. This structure had two towers. A little after 120 years from the year of construction, one of the towers was collapsed and was never built again. In 20 th century, the Pope Pius XII presented the honorary ‘Golden Rose’ to the cathedral, which is now placed on the tomb of Saint. Francis Xavier, inside the cathedral. - GTDC
probably the largest church in Goa, Se cathedral has stunning bright interiors . quite contrasting to the Se Cathedral in Lisbon, which is dark and moody.
april 25, 2018, Goa, India
1DXMKII and 11-24
