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Proclamation of the Jubilee Year
Description: The Sylvestro Benedictine Monks will be celebrating the 175th year of their presence and mission in Sri Lanka in 2020. In view of this a Jubilee Year was proclaimed by the Conventual Prior Very. Rev. Fr. Shamindra Jayawardena on the 26th of November at the occasion of the Feast of the Founder, St. Sylvester Guzzolini which was held at Monte Fano, Ampitiya. This was done in the presence of Bishop Vianney Fernando, the Bishop of Kandy, our own confrere Bishop Cletus Perera OSB, the Bishop of Ratnapura.