Joseph vaz biography

On Sunday the 21st of January of 1995, Pope Saint John Paul II, as the last port of call on his travels in the Far East, stopped off on the island of Sri Lanka. There, he conducted a ceremony of beatification, which is the formal recognition by the Church of the holiness of the life of someone who has gone to his eternal reward. St James says that the prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects (5:16). The Second Vatican Council, in its Document on the Church, repeated this teaching when it said:

Those in Heaven … do not cease to intercede with the Father for us. Rather they show forth the merits which they won on earth through the one Mediator between God and Man, Jesus Christ’. (49)

Beatification is the recognition, by the Church, of this power of intercession, this power of praying in an especially powerful way, on behalf of the faithful. The Church verifies the holiness of a particular man or woman through the working of a miracle at their entreaty. The person whose heroic virtues and power of intercession so recognized by the Church was 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.

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by Fr. Romualdo Robin Rodrigues

Joseph Vaz was born on a Friday (21^st April 1651*Benaulim-Goa), baptised on a Friday and died on a Friday(16th January 1711*Kandy-Sri Lanka).

The day Joseph Vaz was born, Cristovam Vaz, his father saw a star in the Sky during mid-day and wrote in his personal diary that his son would become a great man.

The Doors of Cortalim Church, the neighbouring church, opened on its own when he went to visit the Blessed Sacrament during the Nights from his paternal home at Sancoale. As a young boy he was called “the little saint” in his Paternal and Maternal Village. He recited the rosary on his way to the Church and the school.

He wrote “the Letter of Captivity “ or “ the Deed of Bondage “to Mother Mary on 5^th August 1677.The first letter ever written to Mother Mary by a priest soon after his ordination, whereby, he dedicated his life to the Mother of Jesus.

He resolved to eat kanji (Rice broil) for his food (the food of the poor) throughout his life. He rarely even ate this meagre meal.

After returning from South kanara, having brought peace between the warring factions of the propaganda and padroado, he started the first indigenous order in Asia, the “Milagristas “or the

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Joseph Vaz

Oratorian clergyman and 1 (1651–1711)

Saint Joseph Vaz C.O.
Apostle of Sri Lanka, Missionary of Canara & Benefactor of Goa
Born	(1651-04-21)21 April 1651 Benaulim, Goa, Romance India,
Died	16 Jan 1711(1711-01-16) (aged 59) Kandy, Kingdom show evidence of Kandy
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Beatified	21 January 1995, Galle Unimportant Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka by Vicar of christ John Missioner II
Canonized	14 Jan 2015, Galle Face Leafy, Colombo, Sri Lanka rough Pope Francis
Feast	16 January
Attributes	Mitre situated to rise, holding roodtree, sun image, Oratorian habit
Patronage

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