From his days at The Navhind Times to owning Goa Today, Mascarenhas had become an icon in Goan journalism.

One can understand this large panel being carried (as we know the similar one at S. Maria Novella was) in procession and worshipped, but it is nearer to the icon of the Russian peasant of today than to a Raphael.

"Icon" means image (cf. iconoclast); the word has lately become familiar through the religious use of icons by the Russians in the war with Japan.

The peasants gave me an icon with an inscription.