Pajent,
Anu 1953 - Ungua dia grandi
Na
isti anu 1953, Gomintu, Bispu, padri padri kung jenti Katolika Malaka
jah fazeh ungua grandi bringku dah mustrah Bida San Fransisku na
Terra Malaka Cina kung Moru. Jah fazeh isti bringku pun pra komemora
osu San Fransisku ki jah lebah na Malaka di Macau.
Tudu
jenti Kristang jah tokah "act" na isti grandi bringku
- Pajent. Jenti idadi kung krensa, tudu ja achah kadakwal sa sibrisu,
kadakwal sa "role". Keng cadu kantah ka balah jah intra
na Tropa Kantor ka Tropa Balah ki Brother Michael jah fazeh. Teng
krengkrensa ki cadu bringka muzik jah intra na Orkestra SFI. Sesenta
ropa ki jenti di Pajent jah bisti, jah trizeh di Portugal. Kai bunitu
sa klor-klor amostra ropa-ropa Ropianu akeh tempu.
Teng
jenti di Eropah jah beng tirah pintura kung fazeh 'cinema' pra tomah
lebah, dah mustrah kung jenti eli sa terra, isti grandi dia na Malaka.
Jah korenta dos anu agora di akendia grandi. Ngka sabeh isti filim
ki teng tantu jenti Kristang, teng mas ka nteh.
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Presenting 'Ungua Adanza' to the Director of Instituto
Camoés
(Left) Looking
at his gift is the Portuguese Foreign Ambassador; Dr. Jamie Gama.
1996 |
A
Great Day - The Pageant of 1953.
In 1953, the British Government
of Malacca, with the cooperation of the Bishop, priests of the Catholic
Churches and missionary schools organised on a grand scale, a Pageant
depicting the life of St.Francis Xavier in Malacca, China and Goa.
This coincided with the welcoming of the relic (the bone) of St.Francis
Xavier which was brought to Malacca from Macau and for the commemoration
of the Anniversary of St.Francis Xavier's Death on Sancion Island.
Almost the entire Eurasian
community in Malacca were involved in the production. Both young
and old, men and women participated. Those with good voices or had
a talent for dancing were auditioned and then selected for the Choir
or Dance Group. Musically talented school children who played an
instrument were trained for the orchestra and choir under the baton
of Bro.Michael. Sixty costumes for the actors and actresses in the
"Pageant" were specially shipped in from Portugal while
the rest were tailored by the nuns and lady alter workers of the
Catholic schools and churches respectively. The colour and designs
of the Portuguese Dress of the Courts of the 16th. Century were
very rich and vibrant and the Kristangs felt grand wearing them.
There were some foreign
film companies that made a film of the Pageant to take back to their
respective countries. The scenes of the life of St.Francis Xavier
that were re-enacted on this auspicious day in Malacca were touching,
dramatic and elaborate. It is forty years since that day. A film
of a hundred Kristangs and Malaccan Catholics participating in the
Pageant of the Life of the Saint they love. Do we still have this
film?
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