PRESS RELEASE FROM THE JOSEPH NAIK VAZ INSTITUTE June 23, 2021
334th Anniversary of first Mass said in Sri Lanka by St. Joseph Naik Vaz Amazon Kindle Book on St. Joseph Naik Vaz, Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka On this 334th Anniversary of the first Mass said in Sri Lanka on June 23, 1687 by St. Joseph Vaz when he went there to re-found the Church in Sri Lanka under Dutch persecution, we are honored to release a Kindle book by Filomena S. Giese about his very great life and his humanitarian service to the abandoned victims of the smallpox epidemic in Kandy in 1696. It is written as a Tribute to all First Responders, caregivers, and volunteers in the past and in today’s Covid-19 pandemic who are risking their lives from danger or infection to save others. The title of the book is: St. Joseph Naik Vaz (1651-1711) – an Indian-Sri Lankan Saint and First Responder for our Covid times. The link to this Kindle book is: https://tinyurl.com/JosephVaz At the beginning of the book is an Article by Filomena published in the Examiner (Mumbai) in January 2021 titled “ St. Joseph Naik Vaz – An Indian-Sri Lankan Saint for our Covid Times.” It describes the heroic way St. Joseph Vaz and his nephew, Fr. Joseph Carvalho, gave shelter, food, medicine, washed the sores of smallpox victims, comforted them, and even sometimes buried them. It was at this time that St. Joseph Vaz founded the first hospital in Kandy. The Synopsis and description of the book is on our website: https://josephnaikvaz.org/archives/1006 Joseph Naik Vaz Institute http://www.josephnaikvaz.org
