13/05/2026
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Welcome to The Goan Story — where forgotten heroes, saints, and faith-filled legends come alive.
✨ In today’s episode:
This is the unbelievable but true story of the first Western missionaries ever recorded on India’s west coast — more than 200 years before the Portuguese arrived.
In the year 1320, four Franciscan missionaries —
• Thomas of Tolentino
• James of Padua
• Peter of Siena
• Demetrius of Tiflis
— began a journey meant for China… but storms on the Arabian Sea pushed them toward Thane, India, where destiny awaited them.
For a short moment, they found peace among ancient Christian communities.
But a domestic dispute, a corrupt court, and a single question changed everything —
leading to one of the most dramatic martyrdom stories in Indian Christian history.
