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From: D'Souza, Avelino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@goanet.org>
on April 11, 2006 5:19 AM


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Portugese rule ruined Jaffna: Historian
HindustanTimes.com
Monday, April 10, 2006|16:15 IST


It is, therefore, not surprising that when the Dutch overthrew the
Portuguese in June 1658, the people of Jaffna were immensely relieved.
The refugees not only came back to Jaffna, but shed Catholicism and reverted
to Hinduism en masse. Some of course, took to the Protestant religion of the
Dutch.

Only the coastal Paravas, who apparently saw Catholicism as a liberation
theology, stuck to Catholicism.
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It was reserved to Goan Oratorian priests and brothers to, almost thirty
years later (1687), slowly but surely look for and find the catholics who
persisted in practicing their religion clandestinely in view of the severe
Dutch calvinist persecution. Our (now Blessed) Padre Jose Vaz and his
faithful companion Joao, after learning Tamil in Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu),
sailed from there to northern Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) disguised as coolies,
and after a difficult journey, managed to make it safely to Manaar and from
there to Jaffna. A book in Portuguese with the title "De Goa a Ceilao - Saga
de um Caminheiro Infatigavel", featuring the circumstances in which Jose Vaz
lived and exercised his apostolate, is scheduled to be released by the
Archbishop of Goa and Daman at the St. John Baptist Church of Benaulim (the
village where the Blessed was born and baptised) on the 21st of this month,
birth anniversary of the same Apostle of Kanara and of Sri Lanka (born April
21, 1651 at Benaulim, Goa - died January 16, 1711and buried somewhere in Sri
Lanka, presumably in the city of Kandy).

Jorge de Abreu Noronha






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