Within minutes we joined with the German relief team, Dr. Dietmar Doring Jayalth and plan a space mission from the rest of the day was in the mood.
Our breakfast, a delicious dish Jaffna soon after you finish, we all started to move towards Jaffna Bishop House.
While I with German university students in the corridor behind the church was going on, my memories of my school days, my then bishop of Jaffna with Dr. Thiyogupillai went back to meeting many years ago. Her caring nature very much impressed me, although I did not belong to the Catholic religious area, but was a believer in Jesus.
Bishop of Jaffna Rt. Rev. Thomas Saundranayagam a long conference hall with all of us had to negotiate their way service for tsunami victims, praised the students.
While I was back in the corridors with students, I was reminded of the era of Portuguese rule and was introduced in Jaffna Catholism how.
Portuguese under Captain General Constantine de Sa's 1620-21 Jaffna Jaffna spelled the demise of the independent state in the victory under the command of Philip de Oliveira. Presented as an excuse to capture the Jaffna king of Jaffna, killing Nirdytapoorvka about six hundred newly baptized Catholics in the island of Mannar. Constantine de Braganza led a campaign in 1560 captured Mannar.
Jaffna king to sue for peace and pay tribute, so the king could live freely in Jaffna promised. But tributary status ended in 1591 and Portuguese kings of Jaffna despite the interruption of the missionary work carried out conversion. After the last ruler of Jaffna was captured in 1620, Jaffna became part of Portugal Overseas Empire.
Portuguese rule in Jaffna's main contribution was the introduction of Roman Catholicism. Portuguese wantonly destroyed quite a number of Hindu temples and Hindus against the many other measures introduced. Historians once said during the Portuguese rule in the 17th century, Tamil-speaking Jaffna Peninsula, a stronghold of conservative Hindus worship Shiva was entirely Catholic. Fernao de Queiros, Portuguese historian famous being "fully Christian" as described in Jaffna.
Jaffna Tamils reasons for the mass conversion of the undisputed military and political power that used in the Portuguese population of Jaffna, the Jaffna public a variety of factors, one of which was non-aggressive, were due to non-militarized and was leaderless. Although St. Francis Xavier in 1543 had begun the conversion, the complete takeover of Jaffna that the conversion took place on a large scale only after the was.
Rapid increase in the number of converts, they "General Baptist" to come down. Specific case of a common baptism in a village before the Portuguese Tom - by Tom announced the arrival of the missionaries was. Questions to gather the villagers and missionaries, they ask your "false" gods to reject the "one true God" would accept to be asked. It was not a prayer, it's about power, supported by the Portuguese government orders. This is always the local Portuguese authorities missionary and native chiefs who will support them with. Sugarcane and share the fear of a fine or corporal punishment on their Sundays and feast days will ensure regular attendance at church.
A United Nations force under the name of the author saying that Hindus believed that there were different paths to salvation and there is nothing wrong in accepting Catholicism that has been quoted as saying.
Portuguese rule ruined Jaffna and Jaffna farmers as the heavy tax burden, the Portuguese had to pay from time to time kept hiking. Jaffna Treasury cash was being used to fund the Portuguese colonies elsewhere. Nothing was plowed back into the local economy. Fernao de Queiros, according to the people of Jaffna under Portuguese rule had been "reduced to great pain.
In the absence of the possibility of war or rebellion for the people had been displaced only option. They peninsula in the south and to India across the Palk Strait in the Wanni forest left.
Jaffna people were extremely relieved when the Dutch overthrew the Portuguese in June 1658. Refugees not only came back to Jaffna, but shed Catholic group reverted to Hinduism. Some of course, the Dutch took to the Protestant religion.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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