“Como o género de vida do Padre Vaz é em realidade ... sobre-humano ... o povo do país credita-lhe muitos milagres ... os pagãos e os muçulmanos relatam fatos sobre ele que são os mais extraordinários.”
O Superior do Oratório de Goa, 1698
O Superior do Oratório de Goa, 1698
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- Affiliation:
- Ecclesia Catholica Romana, et Congregatio Oratorii S. Philippi Nerii
- Location:
- Sancoale, Goa
- Birthday:
- April 21
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's mission to Canara and Mangalore and Ceylon is well outlined in the article linked. Also featured is a statue of the Beatus at Cortalim, in south Goa. The people of Goa have been waiting for our first Saint for almost three hundred years. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/about_goa/j
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus Another biography, with a timeline and a couple of book references. It is quite hard to find books devoted to the Beatus.
Source: www.goacom.com
It is over a year since Pope John Paul II made his pilgrimage journey to the Asian and Australian continents. On his way back, he stopped in Sri Lanka to beatify venerable Father Joseph Vaz, a 17th Century priest born in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, India, on 21st April 1651. ...
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus 's parents, Cristóvão Vaz and Maria de Miranda, were Goan Catholics and members of the Brahmin caste. In the old Portuguese colony of Goa, locals were for a long time not allowed rank in the Roman Church. Two communities welcomed locals of the Brahmin c
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus had opened a Latin school in Sancoale to help those who wished to prepare for the priesthood; he did much good among the youth in Goa. His Oratorians later helped take up the slack when the Jesuits were chased out of Goa in the late eighteenth century.
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus , when once travelling from Kandy to Puttalam, was able to cross a river at knee depth, when other men on the road floundered at the same place, water rising above their shoulders. Extraordinary.
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus left Goa for Ceylon with Pe. Paulo de Sousa and Ir. Estevão Siqueira and a `Gaudi boy by name João. The four went down via Karwar, Honavar etc. to Mangalore teaching, healing, administering on the way to the thirsty Christian communities long deprived o
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus chose to face the viciousness of Dutch Calvinists in moving to Ceylon in 1686. Oppressing the nascent Church was their way of decimating the Portuguese Empire.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Taken from a pamphlet handed out at the Sanctuary of Bl. Joseph Vaz, Sancoale, Goa: Loving Father, Your son wrote in the hearts of all people Your heavenly message through the wonders of Your everlasting love. Following in His footsteps, Your servant, Bl...
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A very happy Feast Day tomorrow to all devotees of Bl. Joseph.
The last notification called him Saint at one point. Not yet, not yet, it was an error; but soon, we do hope.
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus Delighted to see all new fans. We are looking for more Goan and Ceylonese Catholics. To all fans, please direct any that you know here.
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus Some pictures from a visit to the Santuary in Sancoale, Goa.
Fr Joseph Vaz, Beatus
You couldn't do better than finding a Ceylonese or Sri Lankan Catholic and asking them. They have marvellous stories told by word of mouth. Or you could find the biography I've read, which is a 1961 issue of A Saint for the New India: Father Joseph Vaz by Carlo Gasbarri, by S. Paul publications. I don't know if they are still printed.
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