Aldona
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Aldona is a village in Bardez
, and a census town
in the North Goa district in the state of Goa
, India
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, Aldona had a population of 6320. Males constitute 46% of the population and females 54%. Aldona has an average literacy rate of 79%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 49% of the males and 51% of females literate. 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.
It has several vadde, including Quitula, Goncoi, Udoim, Coimavaddo (Voilo and Socoilo), Carona, Santerxette, Castel Vaddo, Naikavaddo, Panarim and Ranoi.
Aldona is connected to Corjuem by a state of the art cable-stayed bridge held by six cables from either direction.
The current Archbishop of Goa and Daman, India, Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão is from Aldona (born January 20, 1953 in Santerxette, Aldona, Goa, India)
. A flight of broad steps cut into a cliff and lead to an open plain that surrounds the grand white building.
Inside, the Church is ornately decorated by symbolic biblical murals and grand statues. The treasures of the church are the subject of a village legend. At one time, the statues of the church were strung with jewellery by villagers as thanks for prayers answered. But Churches were often robbed of these jewels.
Bardez
Bardez is the name of a region and taluka in North Goa. The name is credited to the Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Aryavarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent. Bardez or more properly Bara desh means "twelve countries"...
, and a census town
Census town
In India, a census town is one which has:# A minimum population of 5,000# At least 75% of male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits# A density of population of at least 400 persons per km2.In Ireland, a census town is;...
in the North Goa district in the state of Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Geography
Aldona is located at 15.58°N 73.87°E. It has an average elevation of 19 metres (62 feet).Demographics
India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Aldona had a population of 6320. Males constitute 46% of the population and females 54%. Aldona has an average literacy rate of 79%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 49% of the males and 51% of females literate. 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Religion
Its church is dedicated to Sao Tome. The parish chapels include the chapel at Carona (Sta. Rita de Cascia), Corjuem (Mae de Deus) and the Marie Piedade Chapel in Quitula.It has several vadde, including Quitula, Goncoi, Udoim, Coimavaddo (Voilo and Socoilo), Carona, Santerxette, Castel Vaddo, Naikavaddo, Panarim and Ranoi.
Aldona is connected to Corjuem by a state of the art cable-stayed bridge held by six cables from either direction.
The current Archbishop of Goa and Daman, India, Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão is from Aldona (born January 20, 1953 in Santerxette, Aldona, Goa, India)
St. Thomas Church
The Church of St. Thomas remains an awe inspiring presence in Aldona. It was built in 1596 on a high plateau on the banks of the Mapusa RiverMapusa River
Mapusa River river is a tributary of the River Mandovi in Goa, India. The river originates from the jungles of Dumacem and Amthane, meanders eastward and then southward before it drains itself in the Mandovi river at Penha de France...
. A flight of broad steps cut into a cliff and lead to an open plain that surrounds the grand white building.
Inside, the Church is ornately decorated by symbolic biblical murals and grand statues. The treasures of the church are the subject of a village legend. At one time, the statues of the church were strung with jewellery by villagers as thanks for prayers answered. But Churches were often robbed of these jewels.
Prominent people from Aldona
- Roussel Alvares - A world famous Hollywood personality (acted in movies like MI2,Wolverine,Oceans 13) residing in Mumbai,comes from Corjuem which is connected to Aldona by a cable-stayed bridge (never uses it though)as he always comes in his Cessna plane.
- Elvino de Sousa
- Maria Aurora CoutoMaria Aurora CoutoMaria Aurora Couto is an Indian writer, historian and educationalist from Goa. Her family hails from the Goan Catholic community, a Christian community in Goa. She taught English literature in colleges in India and has contributed to periodicals in India and the United Kingdom.She lives in the...
- Alban Couto
- Trevor Sequeira
- Aditya Sekhar - Famous for failing every possible subject in Law School
- Felix De Cruz - Bombay Secretary of United Goans (residing at Ranoi)
- Fabiao B Lobo - Bombay Secretary of United Goans (Lower Coimmavaddo), playwright, freelance journalist.
- Arlindo De Souza - Doctor and former President of Aldona Sports Club
- Ferdinand Fonseca - Bishop of Bombay
- Arthur Pereira - former Olympian and football star for Orkay Sports Club, Mumbai
- Bernard Pereira - former Olympian and football star for Orkay Sports Club, Mumbai
- Alfred RoseAlfred Rose (singer)Rosario Alfred Fernandes , better known by his stage name Alfred Rose was a Goan tiatrist.Alfred Rose was born in Calvim, Aldona to tiatrist A. M. B. Rose and Dolarosa Fernandes. He was initially given the nickname Junior Rose by tiatrist C. Alvares, being the youngest among the actors at the time...
- singer, songwriter and playwright. Resident of Lakhdim and Mahim, Mumbai. - Bernard de Aldona - singer, songwriter and playwright. Resident of Goncoi
- Savio Figueiredo - writer