Sunday with a Solemn Mass and Sermon. The Governor Garcia de Sa stood as God Father whilst the baptising Minister was the Bishop Dom Frei de Albuquerque himself. Locu (who took the surname of his sponsor) was christened by the name of Lucas de Sa. His wife took the name of Donna Isabel and his nephew was named Dom Antonio. They were then carried on horse-back accompanied by all important people of the place who had come for the occasion and also by many Brahmins and they wended their way to the house of Rui Guimaraes and celebrated the occasion in a festive way. The whole city appeared to be celebrating a grand feast with the branches of pine trees at the church square of Rossio de Lisboa on Easter Sunday. For the Glory of God, the Festival was kept on for one full week. The Brahmins stated that since the father had turned a Christian, his sons too would do the same. As for Locu he said that 'more people would become Christians than the hair on his head'". Locu rode on a well-dressed horse and with an escort consisting of the Portuguese Grandees went through the streets of the city which were well decorated and ornamented, receiving Vivas from the people whilst at the same time the bells were ringing merrily. The artillery too joined in the citywide rejoicing, but the most gratifying sounds to be heard were the voices of the Brahmins who in view of the fact that their chief had turned a Catholic thought that they too would do the same, and actually it did not take long for many to follow his example. A letter (till now extant) written on the 13th of December 1548 by Fr. Gaspar Berze(Barzeu), S.J to the Jesuits in Coimbra registers the following “This Locu was a very wealthy man. Every year his property gave him 6000 pardaus; he was very well treated by the Portuguese, performed on their behalf a lot of good work and was so liberal, that he was supposed to be spending 1000 pardaus, distributing much in alms giving. One of the things that God must have taken into account for him to become a Christian must have been his good deeds. Village judicial authority On the recommendation of Bishop Juan de Albuquerque Locu was appointed Tanador-mor (Village Judicial Authority); in addition to this many