[Goanet] Re: Still no native Indian Catholic Saint

[Mario Goveia]

So what?



George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Sept. 25, 2005

Today is the 320th anniversary of the founding of India and the modern Third 
World’s first fully native religious Congregation by Blessed Joseph Vaz and 
his Oratorian companion priests on September 25th, 1685. Blessed Joseph Vaz 
has the official title of “Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka" for his heroic 
work in re-founding the missions around Mangalore and the Church in Sri
Lanka under Dutch persecution. The process for his Cause for Beatification and 
Canonization was started in 1713. It took until 1985 for the Church to declare 
him a “Blessed.” Why? Because the documentation and miracles submitted to Rome 
were annulled and rejected more than once on account of the Church’s earlier 
racial prejudice.