Life of The Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon. by S. G. Perera, S. J. Brief Life Sketch by the J. M. J. Apostolate Blessed Joseph Vaz was born at Benaulim, Goa, on the 21st April 1651. His parents, Christopher Vaz and Maria de Miranda, were devout and pious Catholics who took great pains to bring up their six children in the love and fear of God. It was, therefore, not surprising that Joseph, their third child, who was of medium height, slim and wiry, gentle and kindly, extremely pious and very loving to the poor, should have made up...
