Feast of St Jose Vaz celebrated

The feast of the patron saint of the archdiocese of Goa and Daman and son-of-the-soil, St Joseph Vaz was celebrated on Tuesday with pomp and gaiety by devotees who thronged to Sancoale in their thousands. The celebration was held at Vaz's village of Sancoale at the site of the old Church of Our Lady of Health.

 Canonised by Pope Francis in Sri Lanka in January 2015, St Joseph Vaz remembered and evoked by the faithful on 16^th of January.

The high mass was celebrated by archbishop patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao at 10am along with five other prelates Bishop Lumen Monteiro of the Agartala diocese,

bishop Allwyn Barreto of the Sindhudurg diocese, Bishop Peter Machado of the Belgaum diocese, bishop Derek Fernandes of the Karwar diocese and Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India