Feast of Our Lady of Our Lanka, Tewatte takes place in February. The annual festival is a much awaited event in the calendar where large crowds of devotees gather to beseech blessings of Our Lady ...

Today is the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Catholics of Sri Lanka share a deep reverence for the Virgin Mary, to whom they have entrusted the country, spared from the Second World War. The ...

In 1946, he got Vatican permission to erect the structure and dedicate it to Our Lady of Lanka. In 1948, Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Blessed Mother, protectress of Sri Lanka.

The Feast of the National Basilica of Our Lady of Sri Lanka at Tewatte, Ragama will take place on August 30 (Sunday). The main Service, the Blessing of the Sick will be presided by His Eminence ...

The Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu in Sri Lanka. (Photo: Wikipedia) By UCA News reporter, Colombo. Published: July 06, 2020 10:06 AM GMT. Updated: July 06, 2020 10:17 AM GMT. Maria Goretti worried about ...

Jesica Rodrigo loves to attend the feast at the 400-year-old Marian 'Our Lady of Madhu' shrine in northern Sri Lanka each August. She and family members, who along with thousands of other devotees set ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 29, 2011 appointed rev. Clarence Elmo Francis Dias, of the archdiocesan clergy of Colombo as ...

The new Rector was born on January 18, 1963 in Pamunugama, Sri Lanka, and was ordained a priest on 27 July 1989. After attending St. Aloysius Seminary in Borella and the Intermediate Seminary in ...