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When he was first invited to celebrate mass, back in 1949, Father Lancelote Rodrigues was allowed to choose a church for his debut – and he did not hesitate for a moment. Instead of the Cathedral or any other imposing temple at the city’s centre, he picked a small chapel at the Canídromo (the Greyhound racing track), in the populated northern tip of Macau, where for months he had been assisting Portuguese refugees from Shanghai who have escaped civil war in China. The enthusiasm and dedication he showed in what was actually his first mission after being ordained priest, helping “rich and educated people that found themselves virtually empty handed”, would ultimately shape his life. For half a century he has coordinated relief operations aimed at successive waves of refugees that came to Macau in the wake of regional conflicts, famine and natural disasters [...]
