>From the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute (www.josephnaikvaz.org), Berkeley, >California:
The Joseph Naik Vaz Institute, California, offers its deepest condolences to the families of all those who lost their lives in the tragic AIR INDIA crash in Mangalore. Blessed Joseph Vaz, a Goan, worked in the Mangalore area in the seventeenth century and is well known as the Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka. Supporters of the Institute will remember the victims and their families at Mass on Sunday, May 23rd and will offer a special Mass in their memory at the miraculous Shrine of Blessed Joseph Vaz in Mudipu, Karnataka. Joseph Naik Vaz Institute www.josephnaikvaz.org