Sri Lanka
Notable Catholic Saints
Bl. Joseph Vaz (Oratorian priest who ministered underground to Catholics during Dutch Protestant suppression, beatified 1995 by Pope John Paul II in Colombo; canonized 2015)
Asia-Pacific
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's 1.3 million Catholics carry a faith that survived the Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonial periods with remarkable continuity — and that was devastated on Easter Sunday 2019, when coordinated ISIS-linked suicide bombings killed 269 people in three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels.
Sri Lanka
Notable FEAST DAYs
Feast of Our Lady of Madhu (Aug 15) — Sri Lanka's most important Marian shrine, pilgrimage draws hundreds of thousands; Feast of St. Joseph Vaz (Jan 16); Easter — now marked by the memory of the 2019 martyrs
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