According to the Culavamsa’the chronthe of the Buddhist which is a record of the most notable events from about the 4th century to 1815 …drought, floods , pestilence, demographically catastrophic disease like small pox devastated significant gag and SJV ins.
The culavanusa records several of the miracles performe d by St Jose Vaz (SJV) *Miracle 1 Contest With The Magicians * In the Kandyan Kingdom, devil worshipping magicians were invited by the king to make it rain - SJV was also invited ..he requested that he and his followers be allowed to pray. The Magicians prayed first but nothing happened …SJV and his followers prayed and there was deluge. Needless to say King Vimaladharmasuriya and his entourage, respected SJV but the King remained a Buddhist but one of his nephews converted, travelled to Portugal, and became a Catholic Priest. *Miracle 2:* He once came to a bank of a river where there was a raging monsoon flood. He raised a cross and called his followers to join him…..told them to cross the tamed river while he stood behind and then crossed himself… *Miracle 3 Calming Elephants on Stampede * Like the gnu of Tanzania, when hundreds hurtle themselves to be drowned or eaten by crocodile so too do elephants go on a frenzy (also used as a hunting technique ) ….SJV calmed these behemoths, The greatness of SJV was that he started the Goan Oratory consisting entirely of indigenous Goan priests who were of the low cast. Several of the priests were his relatives including his nephew and biographer Father Sebastian do Rego, SJV was appointed the Vicar Apostolic of Ceylon..To put it mildly there were problems. In 2016 Pope Franciscis , Yes Pope Francis declared him a a Saint in a huge gathering in Colombo *Can somebody FN, tell me what do the **following mean:* Tamil <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>: புனித யோசப் வாஸ் Sinhalese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_language>: ශාන්ත ජුසේ වාස් මුනිතුමා, ??????ලංකා අපොස්තුළුවරයා 2) The place where SJV was baptized, went to school, the houses of his relatives are all known in Goa …something can be done 3) SJV died on the 16 of January 1710 we do not enen know where he was buried …..GET TO WORK DNA archaeologist. historians Here are some useful sites *https://gloria.tv/article/ot1sBshjc7Eq4FW3bzuMXXQaK <https://gloria.tv/article/ot1sBshjc7Eq4FW3bzuMXXQaK>* *https://wiki2.org/en/Joseph_Vaz <https://wiki2.org/en/Joseph_Vaz>* *LETS CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF SJV on 16 Jan 2019 in Style*