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St. Britto's, Goa

St. Britto High School, Mapusa
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School Coat of Arms
Location
Mapusa, Goa, India
Information
Motto Facta Non Verb (Deeds, Not Words)
(Deeds Not Words)
Patron saint(s) St. John de Britto
Established 1946; 71 years ago (1946)
School board Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary
School number 0832-2252266
President Fr. Simon Fernandes, SJ
Principal Fr. Cedric Fernandes, SJ
Affiliation Jesuits (Catholic)
Website

St. Britto is a prominent school in north Goa, on the west coast of India and located in the headquarters town of Mapusa. It was founded in 1946 and is run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Indo-Portuguese historian Dr. Teotonio de Souza, part of the school's staff in the 1970s, says this was the third institution set up by the Jesuits in Goa. Its founding was assisted by Valentino Pinto, a wine-merchant of Mapusa. Initially, the school was called Sacred Heart High School. Its previous owner faced difficulties in staffing and running it, and handed it over to the Jesuits on 22 June 1946, in Portuguese-ruled Goa. Dom Caetano Menezes, the owner of St. Mary's school nearby, also handed over his institution to the Jesuits. The school's name was changed to St. Britto High School on 18 May 1948.

Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza suggests that the reputation of the Jesuits in Goa had been on the rise with their management of Theotonio High School, owned by the Goa Archdiocese.

Fr. Sylvester D'Souza was the first principal of the schools taken over, and both were initially co-educational. The Jesuits transferred the girls from the schools to the Apostolic Carmel (AC) nuns, already active in education in Goa, who went on to form the St. Mary's Convent High School, also at Mapusa, along the Altinho hilltop, where St. Britto is itself located.

Initially, St Britto's functioned from the Bardez Gymkhana site. Priests running the school and boarders rented houses atop the hill, an inconvenient arrangement more so in Goa's torrential monsoons. The new site of the school was purchased from Cipriano da Cunha Gomes. The Goa Archdiocese assisted construction with a loan. Fr. Ubaldo de Sá, of Moira, is credited with the construction.


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