The Rachol Seminary Goa The Rachol Seminary Goa was a Muslim
fortress which was converted into a church by the Portuguese and
thereafter changed to a prison. The Rachol Seminary in Goa was
initially a seminal centre for Theological Studies in the 16th
century. The church was constructed in the year 1576 and was
dedicated to Saint Ignatius Loyola who was the founder of the
Jesuit order which is upheld even today by followers of the
Christian faith. In 1762, the erected structure was later
converted to a Diocesan seminary. The seminary housed the first
printing press which was to generate Christian spiritual
literatures. This press had the capacity to generate 16 journals
and the most well-known of them was the Gospels conversion to
Indian language. In this context, it ought be referred that even
some Hindu sculptures were unearthed when the seminary was
constructed. The Seminary played a pivotal role in endorsing
Christianity in India since its inception. The complex was built
by the Jesuits in 1610 AS and it