{"id":2697,"date":"2023-08-16T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2024-10-24T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:40:47","slug":"2697","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Report of the Study Tour – \u2018Master of Christian Studies\u2019 – Batch I (2022\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A study tour was organized for the first batch of \u2018Master of Christian Studies\u2019 from\nthe 08th to 09th of July 2023 as a part of their field study programme. The study tour was\norganized under the theme \u2018in search of the roots of Christian history in Sri Lanka\u2019. The\ndistrict of Mannar was chosen as a suitable place for this study tour as it is an important place\nconnected with the Christian history and tradition in Sri Lanka from the 16th century onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fist destination of the excursion was the Shrine of Madhu which has a great Christian antiquity and devotion, and is famous for its traditional Christian roots from the time of Portuguese. Clear instructions were given to the participants by the administrator of the shrine regarding its olden times and its prime position in the history of Christianity in Sri Lanka. After visiting the neighbouring villages like Pandivirichchan the excursion group reached Muththaripputhurai which again has its connections with the Portuguese period of Christianity and is a place proud to have completely embraced Christianity during the Portuguese period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The group also visited the ancient archaeological symbol of Allirani Fort. In the evening, the group visited Mannar\u2019s ancient Christian community at Vankalai and paid their respect to late Rev. Fr. Mary Bastian, who was assassinated by the Sri Lankan military forces during the years of ethnic war. On the 09th morning there was worship at St. Sebastian Cathedral which is the administrative church in the Diocese of Mannar. Following the worship, an interactionsession was organized between the students of \u2018Master of Christian Studies\u2019 and the students of St. Sebastian\u2019s Cathedral. \u2018An integral education\u2019 was the theme and the session served as a forum for creating awareness about spiritual and moral aspects of student-hood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThe next place visited was\nThoddaveli which again is an important place connected to the historical significance of\nChristianity in Sri Lanka. It is there around 600 Christians were martyred for embracing the\nChristian faith by C\u00e0nkili, the King of Jaffna in 1544. The students were instructed on the\nhistorical background of the event and explained how the blood testimony of those martyrs\nhelped the early converts in Sri Lanka to be firm in their Christian faith. Then the group\nproceeded to Pesalai which is known\nfor its traditional Udakkupass\n(Passions of Jesus shown with the\nhelp of the puppets). The visit was\nfollowed by a visit to Thalaimannar\nwhere St. Joseph Vaz who is called\nthe Apostle of Sri Lanka had landed\nin Sri Lanka from India to serve the\nCatholics of that time. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the way back the students visited Mantai and St. Mary\u2019s Church over there, which is a historical place\nfor Christians from the time of the Portuguese and also the first abode of Mother Mary who is\nnow venerated at Madhu Shrine. On the whole the study tour served as an essential\ncomponent of experiential learning. The students of Batch I express their gratitude to the\nVice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and to all those contributed in\nmany ways for the success of this excursion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study tour was organized for the first batch of \u2018Master of Christian Studies\u2019 from the 08th to 09th of July 2023 as a part of their field study programme. The study tour was organized under the theme \u2018in search of the roots of Christian history in Sri Lanka\u2019. The district of Mannar was chosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}