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Franciscan Friar Vicente, the chaplain of the fleet, celebrated Mass. This is the first record of a Catholic Mass on Sri Lankan soil. Over the next few centuries, Portuguese, Dutch, and Irish missionaries spread the religion in Sri Lanka, most notably on the western and northwestern coast, where in some places Catholics are half the population.
Constructed Holy water fonts in the doorways P. Bulik: 1937–1940 Introduced the service of Sisters of the Holy Family (of Bordeaux) [5] to St. Sebastian's Maha Vidyalaya, Enderamulla Don Wilfred Benedict: 1940–1944 Fr. Heuber: 1944–1946 J. Dhalpathadhu: 1944–1946 Fr. Mersels: 1944–1946 Don Winson: 1944–1946 J. M. Kerbul: 1946–1951 ...
Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya is a leading Catholic girls school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was established on 3 February 1903, by the nuns of the Holy Family Order of Bordeaux. It provides primary and secondary education. The school currently [when?] has around 3,500 students. The school is a non-fee levying school.
The sisters established the Holy Family Convent in Kurunegala. They were assisted at Benediction in the parish church, and they had their first meal in the Mission House. Mother M. Josephine Bastide took charge of the new community in November 1870. The first building of the school was located where the Kurunegala Post Office stands today.
The Cathedral of St. Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary (Sinhala: Galla Santha Mariya Asana Dewu Mædura), is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galle. It is a landmark in the city of Galle, Sri Lanka. The cathedral was built by the Society of Jesus at the end of the 19th century.
In 1918 the school principal of Trinity College, Alexander Garden Fraser (1873-1962) [5] commenced planning for the construction of a chapel, identifying a site within the school grounds. [6] Fraser was the principal of Trinity College between 1904 and 1924.
The school was first managed by an Irish lady called Mrs. Flannagan with the aim of providing English education to the girls in Jaffna. In 1862, the school was taken over by the Sisters of the Holy Family and became the first convent school on the island. [citation needed] A nunnery exists behind the convent. St.
Christianity in Sri Lanka is not well known before the 16th century although some local traditions claim that Saint Thomas the Apostle was active on the island. [5] Portuguese missionaries from India, especially under the authority of Saint Francis Xavier, introduced Roman Catholicism to the Kingdom of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. [6]