Joseph Vaz, CO (21 April 1651 – 16 January 1711) was an Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Originally from Sancoale in Portuguese India, ...
Saint Joseph Vaz
Missionary
Joseph Vaz, CO was an Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka. Originally from Sancoale in Portuguese India, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time when the Dutch had banned Catholicism in Ceylon and imposed Calvinism as... Wikipedia
Born: April 21, 1651, Benaulim, India
Died: January 16, 1711 (age 59 years), Kandy, Sri Lanka
Parents: Maria de Miranda and Cristóvão Vaz
Canonized: 14 January 2015, Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka by Pope Francis
Patronage: Sri Lanka; Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
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Biography. Father Joseph Vaz was born on April 21, 1651, in India. He was a Goan, born in Benaulim, and was raised in the villages of Benaulim and Sancoale.
Blessed Joseph Vaz (21 April 1651, Benaulim - 16 January 1711, Kandy) was a Catholic Oratorian priest from Goa. He is known as the Apostle of Ceylon.
A Goanese priest, Apostle of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], b. at Goa, 21 April, 1651; d. at Kandy, 16 Jan., 1711. His parents were Christians of the Konkani Brahmin caste ...
Joseph Vaz was born in 1651 in Goa (the Portuguese colony on the western coast of India). After studying under Jesuits and Dominicans, he was ordained a priest ...
Jan 16, 2024 · St. Joseph Vaz was a missionary in Sri Lanka in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He was born in India in 1651, ordained a priest in ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Saint Joseph Vaz was relentless in his desire to bring the Eucharist and other sacraments to persecuted Catholics in Sri Lanka in the 1600s.
Father Joseph Vaz, a priest who worked as a missionary in Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was then called, from 1687 until his death in 1711.
Ordained in 1676. Preacher and confessor. Opened a Latin school in Sancoale for prospective seminarians. Always devoted to Our Lady, in 1677 he consecrated ...
Jan 15, 2023 · He died January 16, 1711 at the age of 59. He had spent 24 years of untiring work to build God's Kingdom in Ceylon. He left a marvellous legacy: ...
