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A Goan Catholic missionary priest, Mário do Monte Beatriz de Almeida, who was ordained and then left the State's shores months after the 1961 Liberation from Portuguese rule, died last week of health complications due to Covid-19 in Sao Paulo Brazil.
He died on April 10 and was laid to rest the next day at the Cemetery of the Holy Sacrament. An over 40-year missionary in the Santo Amaro, Brazil, Latin America diocese, he is the brother of well known Goan priest Saturnino Almeida from Goa Velha.
He was buried sans participation of parishioners due to Covid-19 related restrictions in force in Sao Paulo. His funeral was however livestreamed.
Born in Goa on September 8, 1938, Father Almeida, got ordained on Independence Day (August 15), months after the December 19 liberation of Goa the previous year.
He then soon left for Brazil as am exchange missionary post Vatican II. He was serving as the chaplain of Emilie Villeneuve School of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Castres, São Paulo, at the time of his death.
