This is inaccurate. See what the historian Nayanjyot Lahiri writes http://www.outlookindia.com/article/The-Survival-Of-Memory/291553
...Dharmanand, who connected to the work of Joseph Vaz, got his facts wrong. While speaking of his service to Roman Catholicism in Ceylon during the Portuguese colonial era, he said Vaz “could not have imagined that, at the time, a young aspirant from his native village would undergo ordeals to reach Ceylon to study the religion which he [Vaz] had taken such pains and endured such adversities to destroy”. Vaz’s mission had little to do with the Portuguese and his relationship with the Buddhist kingdom of Kandy, which is part of local lore there, was actually very cordial. V M vmingoa at gmail.com wrote (Goanet, Sept 19, 2014): >From his marvelous biography 'Nivedan' (translated from the original Marathi by Dr Meera Kosambi)—"Father Joseph Vaz, who greatly exerted himself propagating Roman Catholicism in Ceylon during Portuguese rule after St Francisco Xavier, was born in the same village as I. He made a thorough study of Roman Catholicism in Goa and went to Ceylon to proselytize. He could not in his wildest dreams have imagined that at the beginning of the twentieth century a young aspirant from his native village would undergo ordeals to reach Ceylon in order to study the religion he had taken such pains and endured such adversities to destroy. Strange indeed is the working of time!" -- P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 W http://goa1556.in T @fn on Twitter R Saligao, Goa, India Stay in touch. I reply email.