Sculpture of Abbe Faria
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Guano spotted benches outside the defunct palace are a favorite haunt of footsore and frustrated applicants who pay scant attention to the statue that share their waterfront space. No viceroy or emperor, the sculpture is of Abbe Faria, a Goan priest. The sculpture portrays the priest hypnotising a young women and illustrates just one aspect of this unusual priest who was much a man of cloth as a writer, revolutionary and a scientist recognised as the Father of Hypnotism. Born in Candolim (1756) to parents who split up (to enter the catholic church as nun and priest!), he was ordained as priest in Rome. One of the leading members of the unsuccessful Pinto Revolt of 1787, Abbe Faria escaped to Paris where he studied the science of hypnotism and wrote 'De La Cause de Sommeil Lucide', a book based on his theory that hypnotic trances were an outcome of suggestion therapy
