Consoada Christmas Eve Supper Meno Baptista of pre-Vatican 2 era took their religious obligations very seriously, religiously observing all the Holy Days of Obligations, abstaining from eating meat on Fridays and other proscribed days, confessing and receiving the Eucharist at least once a year as required by Church law. They attended, en masse, the many […]
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT Filomeno “Meno” Baptista, March 2010 Japan surrendered unconditionally on August 15th 1945 and soon the rush to return to Hong Kong began. In early September our heroes arrived in Macau onboard a British frigate HMS Parret to reunite with their families; through them we learned that the prisoners who had been sent to
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The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) Originally published in the Bulletin of the Lusitano Club of California, Vol. 27 No. 1, Spring 2017 by Filomeno Baptista The Regiment was formed in 1854 in response to an appeal by the Colonial Secretary. Ninety nine residents, mostly Portuguese, signed up becoming the first Volunteers. It was disbanded
