The Second Bishop of Goan Origin was D. Custodio de Pinho, a native of Verna de Salcete. When he was still a boy he was beginning to spell the first letters (according to the tradition transmitted to us by Mr. Barreto e Miranda, the brilliant and energetic writer of the Historical Pictures of Goa and editor of the life of the venerable Father José Vás — 2nd edition), who, having committed one of those pranks that are common among children of tender age, of cutting and wasting an unripe fruit (it was an Indian jackfruit), and fearing punishment from his family, he decided to leave his father’s house and set off aimlessly along the path to the village of Cortalim, crying a great deal. In this state of distress, a Jesuit priest found him in that village and took him with him to his convent in the old city of Goa without his parents knowing. ^the boy knew where he had gone and where he had come from. Jesuit in India and with him the boy Custodio and when the family’s tears had not yet dried, the future bishop was already in Lisbon and from there he left for Rome, where he enrolled as a student at the school of propaganda fide.
After qualifying himself in the evangelical sciences, he went to Turkey in the service of religion. He came to India as Bishop of Hierapolis and Vicar Apostolic in the kingdoms of the Great Mughal, Idalá and Golconda and visitor of the Malabar Mountains in 1671. He resided in the church of his mission in the province of Bicholim, and from there he came to the city of Goa with permission from the government, after hearing the advice of the state, in consideration of the many services he had rendered to his native country,
D. Custodio lived in Goa when the see was vacant due to the delay that occurred in Rome after the acclamation of the 4th D. João IV;^’he provided the services inherent to his office, ordering almost all the regular and secular clergy that then existed in India; — increased the Christian nature of his mission; —he visited the people of the Malabar Mountains, and then returned to Goa, he died in Salcete on April 14, 1697, at the age of 59, and was buried, as he had requested, at the foot of the altar of Our Lady of Salvation, in the church of Benaulim.
The family of the illustrious bishop preserved his portrait and ring in his memory, and the safe of Our Lady of Milagres on the hill of Curtorim has a token donated by him, when it was offered to him by the aforementioned village woman from whom he was a fellow villager and grandson.