Joseph Vaz, Sri Lankan priest, missionary, and saint (died 1711)

Joseph Vaz

Portuguese Oratorian priest and missionary (1651–1711)

Joseph Vaz CO was a Portuguese Oratorian priest and missionary in Dutch Ceylon. Originally from Sancoale in Portuguese Goa, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time when the Dutch had banned Catholicism in Ceylon and imposed Calvinism as the official religion…