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Croatian connection may be a hoax[edit]

This page needs correction. The only source claiming the Croatian connection with Goa is a single Croat researcher named Zoravka Matisic, hence this article is dubious. There's no justification for her tenuous claims. There are no contemporary Portuguese records about a Croatian settlement in Ilhas. Croatian church architecture of the time period is different from that of Goa (probably due to the different climate). The Gandaulim church's interior and exterior is no different from other Goan parish churches built during that time period.

Also, the feast of St. Blaise is celebrated on 3 February throughout the Catholic Church worldwide, not just in Dubrovnik and Goa. St. Blaise is also a patron saint of places besides Dubrovnik including Portuguese parishes. (Afonso de Albuquerque even named his son Braz.) Lastly, it doesn't make sense for the Portuguese to allow a foreign competitor to set up a separate colony with a fortress in Ilhas when the Portuguese claimed that the entire Velhas Conquistas was an integral part of the Kingdom of Portugal.

Here's more evidence that Matisic's claim about Gandaulim is false:

Present church in Dubrovnik (built in 1715, doesn't match Gandaulim church):https://tzdubrovnik.hr/lang/en/imgs/49630/6/1272876116fotol157_6.jpg
The previous Romanesque architecture church (built in 1300s, also doesn't match Gandaulim church) that existed before the present one in Dubrovnik is shown at 1 min, 23 seconds in this documentary on the Dubrovnik church: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLZP-j7R3FU

Ivo Šišević claims the church in Gandaulim resembles St. Saviour Church, Dubrovnik and not St. Blaise. Again, that's clearly not true. Note that in the Tomas article, various Goan villagers of Gandaulim (e.g. the parish priest) heard about the alleged Croatian connection only when Matisic visited the place and were completely unaware before that. Unfortunately, the Goans didn't check the contemporary Portuguese sources and believed the Croats blindly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.15.228.140 (talk) 15:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]