Sri Lanka, March 1 -- A heroic tale of Catholic Missionary love and labour unfolds itself in the past 160 years of St. Benedict's College. If one counts the preceding 26 years of its existence in the little English School at Wolfendhal Street under its colonial title of 'The Roman Catholic Seminary', St. Benedict's is the first Catholic English School on the island.

The School at Wolfendhal was managed by Oratorian Fathers until it moved to Kotahena in 1865 and became St. Benedict's College under the Sylvestro-Benedictine monks. The De La Salle Brothers came to St. Benedict's by one of those providential designs. Bishop Sillani, Apostolic Vicar of Colombo, happened to meet with three De La Salle Brothers from Mangalore, who were visitin...