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The story of Thewatte Basilica-by Yohan Perera Source:Dailymirror The neighbours got alarmed and had burnt the prayer room Ann constructed a small chapel afterwards  The Bishop permitted a larger chapel to be built in the area The Vatican accepted the devotion to Our lady of Lanka on February 15, 1947  In the village of Narangodapaluwa in Ragama lived a young good looking girl Kurukula Arachchilage Donna Ann Nanayakkara, who married a Maduraperuma Arachchige Migel a Buddhist. This was a love marriage. Migel was a Buddhist but converted to Catholicism during their marriage in 1876. This was the first catholic family to be settled in the vicinity of the Basilica at Thewatte according to Archbishop Emeritus Oswald Gomies who had penned the history of the Basilica in his book Thewatte Basilica Wansa Kathawa which was published in 2016. Ann had later got a small prayer room constructed in her garden for her ...