
14 (Reuters) Pope Francis will give Sri Lanka its first Catholic saint on Wednesday, ending a 300-year campaign to recognize the sanctity of an Indian-born missionary who was captured as a suspected spy after he crept into the tropical island in disguise. Joseph Vaz was born in 1651 in India's Goa, then a Portuguese colony. He travele
d south at the age of 36, dressed as a poor laborer, to a country then known as Ceylon