Our revered tribute to Founder of St. Mary’s College Rev. Fr. D. H. N. Lima O.S.B. whose pioneering and relentless efforts of 23 years brought it up as one of the oldest and leading educational institutes of past Ceylon.
St. Mary’s College hails from Nawalapitiya, a town in Kandy District located on the banks of the Mahaweli River. The college was set up and inaugurated in 1915 during the colonization of the island by the British with just 28 students by Rev. Fr. D. H. N. Lima, the Parish Priest of Nawalapitiya on a portion of land donated by the Imboolpitiya Estate.