Conversion of the Paravar s by Francis Xavier in Old Goa | Goa, in a 19th-century colored lithograph.

In Velha Goa ( Old Goa ), Goa, India the novenas in the year 2011 began on 24 November.

* Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa The Shrine of Saint Francis Xavier

* 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

Another branch of this museum opened in July 2008 at the historical site of Old Goa with a collection of religious statues.

Caetaro Vitorino joined the seminary to complete his studies for the priesthood ( which he had interrupted to get married ), and Rosa Maria became a nun, joining the St. Monica convent in Old Goa, where she rose to the position of prioress.

The Basilica of Bom Jesus ( Good Jesus ), Old Goa, former capital during the Portugal rule.

Image: Se cathedral goa. jpg | The Sé Cathedral of Santa Catarina — located in Old Goa — is a cathedral dedicated to Catherine of Alexandria.

Recently a Wax Museum ( Wax World ) has also opened in Old Goa housing a number of wax personalities of Indian history, culture and heritage.

Old Goa is barely 10 kilometers from the state capital of Panaji.

The name Old Goa was first used in the 1960s in the address of the Konkani monthly magazine, dedicated to spread the devotion of the Sacred Heart, Dor Mhoineachi Rotti which was shifted to the Basilica de Bom Jesus in 1964.

Postal letters were returned to the sender, as the name " Old Goa " was unknown then, according to then and longtime editor of the monthly, the great Goan historian late Padre Moreno de Souza, SJ.

The names Vhoddlem Goem and Thorlem Goem refers to Goa Velha, while Goem besides referring to Velha Goa i. e. Old Goa also refers to the whole state of Goa in some contexts.

It is quite possible that Old Konkani was just referred to as Prakrit by its speakers.

Old Konkani documents show considerable Kannada influence on grammar as well as the vocabulary.

Prakrit ( also transliterated as Pracrit ) ( Sanskrit:, Shauraseni: प ा उद, Telugu: ప ్ ర ా క ృ త, Maharashtri: प ा उअ ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

Classical Newari Nepal Bhasa ( Nepal Bhasa: प ु ल ां भ ा य ्, Classical Nepal Bhasa: प ु ल ा ङ ु न े प ा ल भ ा य ्), or Old Newar, Old Nepal Bhasa, is the pre-1850 literary form of Nepal Bhasa.

* एक ा क ो ळ ी य ा न े ( Eka Koliyane ) – 1965 ... based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

This root has descendants in almost all known Indo-European languages including German Joch, Latin iugum, Ancient Greek ζυγόν ( zygon ), Persian یوغ ( yuğ ), Sanskrit य ु ग ( yugá ), Hittite ( iúkan ), Old Church Slavonic иго ( igo ), Lithuanian jungas, Old Irish cuing, Armenian լուծ ( luç ) etc.

* 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Old Dogs )

* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

Between 529 – 520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the arkhaios neōs ( ἀρχαῖος νεώς, " ancient temple ").

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* 1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician ( Old and in the Way ) ( d. 2005 )

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

* Old Bulgarian ( 9th to 11th century, also referred to as Old Church Slavonic ) – a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved.

* Middle Bulgarian ( 12th to 15th century ) – a literary norm that evolved from the earlier Old Bulgarian, after major innovations were accepted.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost ( breast, bosom ) from Proto-Germanic breustam ( breast ), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus – ( to swell, to sprout ).

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; ;

Here, for the most part, they were well treated, as a `` reminder of the Old Testament heritage of Christianity '' ; ;

In each of the last, the trial marked the beginning of a new course: in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin's dictatorship ; ;

Old Sam's sixty-five years had reduced his value to $150 ; ;

The `` Suite Of Old Russian Dances '' that opened that inaugural program with the slow and modest entrance of the maidens and built steadily into typical Moiseyev vigor and warmth ; ;

The Old Ones neither helped nor hindered this plan ; ;

It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written ; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).