Support La Croix International's unique blend of international Catholic journalism by making it available to people in Asia and Africa who can't afford a subscription and often don't have credit cards to pay for it either. Civilians who had taken refuge in the parish church there in April 1994 were killed. When Alphonsine awoke, she was overwhelmed by the love she felt. The Virgin appeared to them with the name "Nyina wa Jambo", that is "Mother of the Word", which is synonymous to "Umubyeyl W'iamna" that is, "Mother of God", as she herself explained. Dans la suite, elle partit avec des connaissances vers le Zare (aujourdhui RD Congo). Kibeho, a small mountain village in southern Rwanda, is also the name of a parish founded in 1934, dedicated to Mary Mother of God. This parish was well known for its strong Catholic faith and gave a large number of priests and consecrated persons to the Church of Rwanda. Ses parents sappelaient Thadde GAKWAYA et Marie Immacule MUKARUSANA.\r27 juillet 1977, Alphonsine est baptise lge de 12 ans. 1The Tutsis and Hutus are not tribes they belong to the same Banyarwanda nationality. She wore a flowing, seamless, white dress with a white veil that covered her hair. At the time of the apparitions she attended Grade 4 of the elementary level at Kibeho College. Like many imperialists, when the Germans arrived in the late 1800s, they began to foment unrest through prejudice in order to tighten their own control. On a summer morning in 2003, many of those who had participated in the genocidal killings walked out of prison into the sunshine, singing hymns, their freedom granted by the president. - Developed by jofarsystems.com. There is no love and no peace. The Father's Quilt: Rwanda: Mary's Apparition Tune in August 30, 2022: 1pm Mary Appears In Kibeho, to Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka and Marie Claire Mukangango were the 3 young women. In the end, they could not prove the visionary and her position wrong. Though Anathalie couldnt see anyone, she was confident that it was the Blessed Mother who was speaking to her: My child, you must pray, for the world is in a horrible way; people have turned from God and the love of my Son, Jesus.6 Our Lady then asked Anathalie if she would help save souls, adding that she would suffer much if she accepted the mission. Marie Claire and Elie formed a happy couple. Alphonsine was born on March 21, 1965, in Cyizihira, in the parish of Zaza, Diocese of Kibungo. var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; The voice told her she was sad because no one was listening to her, causing Anathalie to cry even more. Unfortunately, they did not have a child, despite their strong desire to start a family. The two commissions completed their investigation twenty years after their creation. As they began their attack, Alphonsine suddenly fell to the ground and stared at the ceiling in the same way she had done on the previous day. Marie-Claire was completely changed. \roctobre 1981, aprs ses tudes primaires Alphonsine est admise au collge de Kibehon, tenue par la Congrgation des Surs\rBenebikira.\rLa Vierge demandait tous de se convertir, avoir la foi, et\rprier sans hypocrisie.\r\r28 novembre 1981, les apparitions de la Mre du Verbe commence lge de 16 ans, Mgr Jean Baptiste Gahamanyi, est l'vque du diocse de Butare dont Kibeho faisait partie jusquen 1992,\rALPHONSINE MUMUREKE termina ses tudes secondaires lEcole\rdes Lettres de Kibeho en juillet 1989 avec un diplme du niveau A2 en secrtariat du Groupe Scolaire Mre du Verbe de Kibeho .\r Alphonsine fut embauche par le diocse comme secrtaire dactylographe au Service diocsain de lEnseignement Catholique Gikongoro. After finishing school, she worked as a secretary in the Catholic education department of Butare in southern Rwanda. But she sought a more secluded life completely devoted to prayers. She was able to return to Rwanda in early December 1996. In eager anticipation, thousands of pilgrims descended upon Kibeho for the occasion of the Solemnity, many looking for miracles, cures for themselves or for family members, answers to prayers or spiritual healings. They next traveled to Isesengurwaa place of purification where the light was dimthe inhabitants of which were at peace but also suffering. As she was filling water glasses, the same apprehension mixed with bliss arose. What Alphonsine did not tell them was that she was receiving messages for government officials, even the Hutu president. How to say Alphonsine Mumureke in English? . Then she slowly drifted upwards and disappeared into the clouds fading light. The exceptional long duration of the apparitions did not discourage the members of the two commissions, who worked with great zeal and the desire to examine the events impartially and without bias, investigating without rush but with patience and calm. The completed chapel was dedicated on May 31, 2003; and on November 28, 2003, the statue of Our Lady of Kibeho was blessed. But Mukamazimpaka, on what she says was an order from the Virgin Mary, has stayed in Kibeho, except for two years during the genocide when she was ordered to leave by the bishop. When asked about her future plans at the time of the apparitions, Alphonsine used to express her wish to join the religious congregation of the Benebikira Sisters. All Rights Reserved. What did Australia do in the Rwandan genocide? Fortunately, the Benebikira Sisters had just come back to Kibeho and reopened their convent, the school and the health centre. Although she had only one year left in order to obtain a diploma level D5 that would qualify her as a primary school teacher, Nathalie did not complete her secondary school studies. Our Lady told her to sing a song that was to portend the seriousness of this particular apparition. Today, she lives in a small one-story house on the church grounds, directly across from . 5 . Convert while there is still time, the Virgin Mary said to the world through Marie Claire. But it was the Virgin Mary's alleged appearance to a third student, Marie Claire Mukangango, that convinced a lot more people that something extraordinary was indeed happening. Then a few months later -- January 12, 1982 -- there were rumors that the Virgin Mary had appeared to another Kibeho student named Nathalie Mukamazimpaka. When she awoke she found herself on the floor in the chapel. Cest l quelle a vcu la tragdie du gnocide survenu en 1994.. On June 29, 2001, Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro, Rwanda, wrote a declaration of approval in favor of the apparitions of Our Lady of Kibeho. Thousands of citizens were brutally killed in the parish church and, a year later, on the esplanade where the apparitions had taken place. 10Our Lady of Kibeho, Immacule Ilibagiza, Hay House Inc., pg 147. The next day, one of the students, Marie-Claire, led a group of fellow students in a confrontation with Alphonsine. Elle y a fait sa prise dhabit religieux le 6/07/2004 ; le noviciat dbuta le 31 Juillet de la mme anne. The mentioned commissions produced numerous reports which were submitted to the Bishop of the Diocese of Butare to which Kibeho still belonged at that time. Father Halter's successor, Father Basile Mobio Gbangbo, an Ivorian diocesan priest from the Archdiocese of Abidjan, serving in the Sacred Heart Parish of Abobo. In early July 1994, Nathalie was forced to leave Kibeho at the request of the Bishop, in order to get into greater safety. If you do not repent and convert your hearts, you will all fall into an abyss.8. var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; It is 36 km from the Bishop of Gikongoros residence and 30 km from the Bishop of Butares residence. It was of a woman calling herself "Mother of the Word". Divine Providence had special designs for the three seers: In June 2003, Alphonsine entered the monastery of the Poor Clares in Abidjan. Marie Claire Mukangango had visions for six months, lasting from 2 March 1982 until 15 September 1982. She went into the hall where she was being drawn; her skin tingled, and her hand trembled.2 A soft, sweet voice called out: My daughter. Again the voice was heard: My daughter., Then, to Alphonsines amazement, the most lovely woman she had ever beheld emerged from the cloud, floating between the floor and ceiling in a pool of shimmering light. The Hutus, as part of the lower class, were the object of discrimination, eventually leading them to rebel against the Belgian colonial power in 1959, forcing 150,000 Tutsis to flee to Burundi. It was not long before most of the girls believed in the apparitions, but the school authorities wondered if the devil was the instigator of all these mysterious events. Only the three initial testimonies merit being considered authentic; they were given by Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and by Marie Claire Mukangango. Pray my Seven Sorrows rosary to find repentance, she said, charging Marie-Claire with the distinctive mission of propagating this chaplet.9. She was baptised on February 2nd, 1968 at the age of 4. Discrimination and struggles between these two classes persisted through the 1990s, as the Tutsis were being excluded from public service and military jobs. When one of the nuns went to check on her, she found Alphonsine quite motionless on the bed, like a corpse. After Marie Claire, the third visionary in the chronology of the apparitions of Kibeho, there were several other girls and one boy, all of them of different age and various levels of education. For reasons mentioned below, she was unable to complete her studies. In contrast, the evolution of the alleged subsequent visionaries, especially after the apparitions were over, reflects disquieting personal situations, which have reinforced the existing reservations in regard to them and discouraged ecclesiastical authorities from proposing them to the faithful as points of reference. Alphonsine Mumureke Show Our Lady of Kibeho Gender Female Age Range Late Teen, Young Adult Role Size Lead Dancing Non Dancer Voice Spoken Time & Place kibeho college, an all-girls catholic school in kibeho, rwanda, 1981-1982 Tags During the 1994 massacres, 20,000 Tutsi were murdered in Kibeho, and Kibeho . She is very pious, and has always shown a great love for the Blessed Virgin. This choice, however, was a working hypothesis, not a presumption of authenticity for such a large number of visionaries. Our Lady promised special graces to those who meditate on her sorrows. | Jan 16, 2017 | 2014, Marian Shrines | 0 comments. She told the girl that she wanted to be loved by people everywhere so that she could bring lost souls to her Son Jesus. Rwanda and Burundi were ruled separately under two different Tutsi monarchs. The first time that the Virgin Mary appeared to Nathalie was on January 12th, 1982, the last time on December 3rd, 1983. Even though this apparition was shorter, it took her longer to regain full consciousness. Returning to her room, she started to pray the Rosary with a few of her friends. Today, Kibeho is best known as a place of apparitions and pilgrimages. The Virgin was silent for some minutes, and then she began to weep. However, as Divine Providence would arrange it, a space had unexpectedly opened up in a government-run all-girl school staffed by religious sisters. It was of a woman calling herself "Mother of the Word". 2 . / My heart is full of sadness, / My child, show me the love, / You love me, / Come closer to my heart.10 The Heavenly Mother had come to ask for repentance, fasting, penance, prayer; and her children were not responding. The White Fathers, an international Missionary Society of priests and brothers, arrived in the late 1800s amid all this tension. var addy5b9eadd281548aea5c9407afe17843cf = 'sanctuaire.kibeho' + '@'; About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Finally, the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front), comprised mostly of Tutsi refugees from Uganda and refugees from Burundi, battled its way through the government-led conflict and slowly gained ground. There are more reasons to believe in the apparitions than to deny them. What makes Katoris play so moving is that it takes place at a time before the genocide, when there is still space for optimism in the lives of the schoolchildren it depicts. He became her spiritual director and took care of her during her stay at Ivory Coast. At the time of the civil war and genocide of 1994, she remained at Kibeho, at the scene of two terrible massacres. Some claimed to have seen Virgin Mary, others wanted to have seen Jesus; still others said they saw the Virgin Mary on one day and Jesus on another day. The two commissions started their work immediately after their creation. The Tutsis ruled Rwanda in the early part of the century and were considered the upper class. He encouraged her to study theology and catechesis until she obtained her theological baccalaureate. My advice therefore is: Guarantee these visionaries peace and encourage them to lead a fairly disciplined life.. Tuesday - Sunday through December 7, $25 212-244-7529 www.signaturetheatre.org My advice therefore is: Guarantee these visionaries peace and encourage them to lead a fairly disciplined life.. Her mother, Immaculate Mukarasana, died some a few years after the genocide of 1994. Alphonsine Mumureke (Nneka Okafor) is in a trance as she believes she is seeing the Virgin Mary in Katori Hall's OUR LADY OF KIBEHO (photo 2014 by Joan Marcus) The Pershing Square Signature Center The Irene Diamond Stage 480 West 42nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves. The personal transformation of the seers (who passed all the criteria established by the Church), as well as many documents and investigations, were carefully examined. When she awoke from her stupor, she saw her classmates staring at her; when they all excitedly questioned her, she started to cry because she realized that Our Lady had departed. On August 15, 1988 the local Bishop approved public devotion to Our Lady of Kibeho. Rwanda and Burundi were once part of the German East Africa, from 1894 to 1918. She saw a beautiful woman neither white nor black floating above the floor in a flowing seamless dress, with a veil that covered her hair. In fact, in advice that seems equally applicable to us today, we are told in the film that one of Our Lady's biggest sorrows was that "[f]ew people truly listened to the . This email address is being protected from spambots. What is more important is that Alphonsine, Nathalie and Marie Claire corresponded satisfactorily to all the criteria established by the Church in the matter of private apparitions and revelations. It was from there that she was urgently transferred to Nairobi for medical care. Then she issued a terrible warning: Rwanda was going to become a hell on Earth in a conflict that would see the picturesque rivers of Kibeho village run red with blood. These witnesses, historically linked, were the only ones on the scene for some months, at least up to June 1982. As long as he/she is still living on this earth, he/she also remains a sinner, called to, do penance and to grow in his / her life of faith and personal sanctification. Together with many other war displaced, they were taken towards Byumba, which was supposed to be a secure zone. She was baptised on July 27th, 1977 at the age of 12 years. During his visit to Rwanda in 1990, Pope John Paul II begged his listeners to heed the Virgins pleas and pray fervently for peace among political and ethnic factions: On this feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which marks the dawn of salvation to the world, I ask the Mother of all of us to watch over her children in Rwanda and particularly you, the leaders of the country, to place your talents at the service of all your compatriots.11, Our Lady had pleaded, but the Rwandans did not listen. Editions of the Shrine of Our Lady of Kibeho, The Shrine, Our Lady of Kibeho: her actual life and perspectives for the future, Declaration of the Bishop of Gikongoro bearing the final judgement on the events of the "Apparitions of Kibeho". Though the school was very poor and had no running water or electricity; Alphonsine was, nevertheless, grateful to be there. So, ever since July 1982, Nathalie has been permanently staying close to the site of the apparitions at Kibeho. Here, three people, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, Alphonsine Mumureke and Claire Mukangango, received messages from Our Lady. Anathalie Mukamazimpaka's visions began in January 1982 and ended on 3 December 1983. Our Lady floated toward her without touching the ground. 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