![]() ![]() Vaz was a priest from Goa, Portugal’s colony in India, and arrived in Sri Lanka in 1687. Later, when the Dutch and the Dutch East India Company displaced the Portuguese, Roman Catholicism was revived through the efforts of St. Among those converted included Don Juan Dharmapala, the king of Kotte, a small kingdom near present-day Colombo on Sri Lanka’s southwestern coast. ![]() In 1505, the Portuguese came to Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called, in a trade agreement with King Vira Parakramabahu VII and later intervened in succession struggles in local kingdoms. It was Portuguese colonialism that opened the door for Roman Catholicism into the island nation.
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