page_title: Jacome Gonsalves
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Jacome Gonsalves / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomb of Fr. Jacome Gonsalves at Bolawatte Church
context_page_description: Rev. Fr. Jacome Gonsalves, CO was an Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon.
  Fr. Jacome Gonsalves arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, when the Dutch were imposing Calvinism as the official religion after taking over from the Portuguese. He also helped St. Joseph Vaz in services. He did a massive service using his knowledge on Sinhala and Tamil Languages.
  He is also known as the "Father of Catholic Literature in Sri Lanka" because of the massive service he had done. He had written many books, prayers, hymns and translated many hymns. Some of those hymns and prayers are in popular use among Sinhala and Tamil Catholics.
context_section_description: Fr. Jacome Gonsalves came to Bolawatta church in 1740. There he wrote and published many books. He chose there as the meeting place of the all missionaries who were in Sri Lanka. He passed away on 17 July 1742, at an age of 66. He was buried in the Church of Our Lady of Assumption, Bolawatte.
caption: Tomb of Fr. Jacome Gonsalves at Bolawatte Church
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