Highlights of a Hundred Years at St Aloysius College, Galle
Highlights of a Hundred Years at St. Aloysius College, Galle Compiled by K. K. de Silva Based on Articles in the Aloysian Centenary Souvenir, courtesy of FB pages of L. K. Hettiarachhi & Shanuka Perera (who have done a great service by preserving Aloysian records in digital format) & other sources. L. K. Hettiarachhi Introduction St. Aloysius College & St. Mary’s Cathedral stand together on Mount Calvary Hill, known in earlier times as ‘Poraka kande’ or Gibbet Hill, in Galle. The Hill was the place where executions were carried out during Dutch rule, & Hemantha Situge, a distinguished old Aloysian, refers to its significance in his blog of 31 Dec. 2012 titled “The Scaffold City Galle”. Later , during Dutch rule, a church was constructed at the premises where the Cathedral is today & it had also been used as a school hall, according to Sagara Jayasinghe in Dwelling of Faith.pdf p.13. He points out that a 1795 map of Galle shows a small church, the