Various reasons justify the choice by Our Lady of these three visionaries already approved as visionaries. As she was filling water glasses, the same apprehension mixed with bliss arose. Perhaps the most significant vision occurred on August 15, 1982, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This choice, however, was a working hypothesis, not a presumption of authenticity for such a large number of visionaries. After graduation, Marie-Claire spent years spreading devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. Katori Halls play Our Lady of Kibeho is the story of three friends who insisted that they were visited by the Virgin Mary and told of the horror that lay ahead. Pray my Seven Sorrows rosary to find repentance, she said, charging Marie-Claire with the distinctive mission of propagating this chaplet.9. Neighbors killed neighbors; Hutu husbands were forced to kill Tutsi wives. Cest l quelle a vcu la tragdie du gnocide survenu en 1994. As for Alphonsine Mumureke, the first visionary, she has had a long journey. The two commissions started their work immediately after their creation. She was baptised on July 27th, 1977 at the age of 12 years. May it be a call for the Church of Rwanda, and beyond, to turn with confidence to Our Lady of Sorrows. Nathalie Mukamazimpaka was born as the daughter of Laurent Ngango and Gaudence Mukabaziga in 1964 in Munini in the current district of Nyaruguru, in the parish of Muganza, Diocese of Gikongoro. When Alphonsine awoke, she was overwhelmed by the love she felt. Father Halter became Alphonsine's spiritual director. The call to expiatory sacrifice being one of the major lines of the message of Kibeho, Nathalie always tries her best to live this message. Though Rwanda is situated only a few degrees south of the equator, the climate is fairly temperate (temperatures averaging 70 F / 21 Celsius) because of its location in a mountainous region with an average altitude of 5,000 to 6,000 feet (1,500 to 1,800 meters) above sea level. On August 22nd, 1987, Marie Claire celebrated her church wedding to Elie Ntabadahiga, a member of Mushubi parish. In early July 1994, Nathalie was forced to leave Kibeho at the request of the Bishop, in order to get into greater safety. It is estimated that, in just three months, almost one million were killed as the extremist Hutus targeted the minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. She successfully completed her secondary school education in July 1983 at Kibeho College with a diploma (level A3) which qualified her for primary school teaching. Congo, where she sought refuge at the house of befriended families, who knew her from Kibeho. In the end, they could not prove the visionary and her position wrong. Given the large number of the supposed visionaries, who had never had apparitions in a group and thus had to be investigated one by one, the commissions had to create methods of more efficiency in order to get on with their work. Looking down upon all this contention in a country of unparalleled beauty, rife with poverty and tension, heaven breathed forth a message of love and warning. When she awoke she found herself on the floor in the chapel. She is one of three Vatican-approved seers of the Our Lady of Kibeho apparitions of the 1980s, which occurred in her late teen years. Alphonsine Mumureke, happy to see the Mother of the Saviour Alphonsine Mumreke, the first seer of Kibeho, is 17 years old, and is in her first year at the secondary school of Kibeho. The Virgin was silent for some minutes, and then she began to weep. Her father, Thadde Gakwaya was assassinated in September 1984. This encouraged Nathalie to return home after two years of absence. And they were causing increasing furor. Her mother, Immaculate Mukarasana, died some a few years after the genocide of 1994. Mary first appeared to a girl named Alphonsine Mumureke "when she was serving other kids," Ilibagiza explained. 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. On August 22nd, 1987, Marie Claire celebrated her church wedding to Elie Ntabadahiga, a member of Mushubi parish. Kibeho College, founded in 1967 on the initiative of the parish priest of Kibeho, Father Grgoire Kamugisha, has often changed name in order to conform to the changing programs of the Ministry of National Education. Yes, the Virgin Mary appeared at Kibeho on November 28th, 1981 and in the months that followed. There are more reasons to believe in the apparitions than to deny them. Tuesday - Sunday through December 7, $25 212-244-7529 www.signaturetheatre.org The list of its authors can be seen in its historicaland/or the page Edithistory:Alphonsine Mumureke. However, the superiors of this congregation hesitated to accept her since the question of the authenticity of the apparitions had not yet been clarified by the church authorities. The authentic conversions of the seers proved that the Good Mother had come to reinforce the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Civilians who had taken refuge in the parish church there in April 1994 were killed. 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. The Bishop of Gikongoro wrote a letter of recommendation to Cardinal Agr and, following the advice of Father Basile, Alphonsine left the Business School to join the Catechetical School, affiliated to the Catholic University of West African in Abidjan. She asked the seers to promote and pray the Chaplet of Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. He prayed that it would be a holy place of prayer, conversion, and reparation for the world. Ever since, she has been continuing her generous work for the Marian shrine and committing herself to praying with the pilgrims. Hence, starting from September 1983, she first taught in her home parish Mushubi and thereafter in Kigali from September 1987. He became her spiritual director and took care of her during her stay at Ivory Coast. She was baptised on August 12th, 1966 at the age of 5. Our Lady floated toward her without touching the ground. Anathalie Mukamazimpaka's visions began in January 1982 and ended on 3 December 1983. Within one hour of the presidents death, a bloody massacre unfolded which was to prove the accuracy of the prophetic visions. Shortly before the apparitions she was admitted in Kibeho College in October 1981 in order to continue her studies after primary school. She went so far as to inform the local bishop, who told her that he was already aware of the events. "Without the effort to love God, one becomes mediocre," pope tells new cardinals, Mongolians fear for their cultural heritage, Pope Francis, Cardinal Becciu and the importance of transparency, Charities in the United States brave pandemic to provide Thanksgiving meals to poor. . Augustin Misago, Declaration bearing the final judgement on the event of the "Apparitions of Kibeho", n 14.). Two words hover over the nations collective psychology: never again. Everything said or done after that date at Kibeho did not bring anything new with respect to what was already known, from the point of view of the messages and of the signs of credibility. On August 15, 1988 the local Bishop approved public devotion to Our Lady of Kibeho. When she awoke from the nightmare, she found two friends supporting her, questioning her and advising her to return to the dormitory. She was baptised on August 12th, 1966 at the age of 5. Survivors of the tragedy describe burning churches, streets clotted with corpses, starving livestock, mass graves, lost orphans and famine and disease everywhere the very things described by the three girls when recounting their terrible visions. Misago writes in his declaration of June 29th, 2001: A visionary, even when recognised as authentic by the church authorities, remains a human being like everyone else, with his/her personal temperament, qualities and shortcomings. 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. The Service Centre was led by a priest. First two years of apparitions at Kibeho . 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. Today, Rwandans continue to confront on a daily basis the pain of memory, the power of reconciliation, the challenges of redemption and forgiveness and the ineradicability of loss. The Blessed Mother then asked her to join the Legion of Mary. 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. Then a few months later -- January 12, 1982 -- there were rumors that the Virgin Mary had appeared to another Kibeho student named Nathalie Mukamazimpaka. They conquered the government forces on July 4, 1994, a date now commemorated as a public holiday. The dissension between the Hutus and the Tutsis was essentially a class struggle, and not a tribal conflict,1 as is often believed. At the end of her studies at Kibeho, Alphonsine was immediately employed by the Diocese of Butare as a secretary and stenotypist at the Diocesan Service Centre for Catholic Education, at that time part of the prefecture of Gikongoro. The young professed was given the name of Alphonsine of the Glorious Cross ". After her graduation from theology with a specialization in catechesis in June 2003, she entered the monastery Sainte Claire in Abidjan (Poor Clares). But she sought a more secluded life completely devoted to prayers. Why did he die in a cell? 13www.nytimes.com/1995/04/24/world/as-many-as-2000-are-reported-dead-in-rwanda.html. Anathalie was likewise escorted on supernatural tours. Alphonsine Mumureke left in 1994 during the genocide and never came back. var addy06979af1fb68ed1cff9c75452df96a61 = 'sanctuaire.kibeho' + '@'; Most historical accounts of the genocide focus on either society or the state, the former exploring the longstanding racism in Rwandan society and the latter documenting the complex power struggles in government and the ways in which propaganda radiated from the capital to the provinces and inspired the violence. More study was yet required before official approval, but pilgrims were now permitted to visit and pray at the apparition site. Her single mother was very poor and was not able to provide further education for her after grade school and had always planned that Alphonsine would help her in the fields thereafter. Congo, where she sought refuge at the house of befriended families, who knew her from Kibeho. Weighing heavily in favor of approval was the verification of the August 15, 1982, prophetic vision of the mass slaughter. 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. Thus, they gave priority to the first eight supposed visionaries: Those of the first year of the apparitions at Kibeho, i.e. \rDans la suite elle fut admise lInstitut Suprieur de catchse dAbidjan affili lUniversit Catholique dAfrique de lOuest. It is 36 km from the Bishop of Gikongoros residence and 30 km from the Bishop of Butares residence. 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. The director grabbed the school nurse and summoned Abbot Augustin Misago, a leading member of the Commission of Enquiry. 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. It is often she herself who welcomes individual pilgrims and assists them in anything they need or refers them to the chaplain if necessary. The three visionaries then claimed that on August 15, 1982 the Virgin showed them images of rivers of blood and dismembered bodies. Our Lady exhorted them to pray always and to teach others to pray with greater zeal and purity of heart. . From there, she continued her escape up to Bukavu in former Zaire together with many other refugees, including priests and religious of all ethnic groups. On November 28, 1981, an event happened that would forever change the life of Alphonsine and affect the lives of millions. For reasons mentioned below, she was unable to complete her studies. Sixteen-year-old Alphonsine Mumureke was privileged to attend Kibeho High school, an opportunity many poor Rwandan girls did not have. It would be imprudent to somehow "canonize"the visionaries of Kibeho while still alive. One woman was shot in the hip and ten people, mostly children, were trampled to death [The soldiers] torched many of the huts so that the IDPs would not return home. She asked Alphonsine, Of all things in heaven, what makes you happy?4 Alphonsine replied that she loved God and His Mother and that they made her happy. . I invite the parents or guardians as well as the friends of the visionaries of Kibeho still alive to moderately treat the visionaries, avoiding exaltation only for them having been favoured by the approved apparitions. It is the most famine-prone region of one of the worlds poorest countries, but so beautiful that locals say: God comes on holiday here.. 7 . Their message is in conformity with the Sacred Scripture and the living Tradition of the Church. Some of her fellow students, teachers and nuns thought she was just trying to get attention or that she had lost her mind. The first apparition of Alphonsine took place on November 28th, 1981, her last exactly eight years later, on November 28th, 1989. The visionaries of Kibeho are no exception from the rule. 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. But one of the students, Alphonsine Mumureke, had a vision on November 28. She was completely unresponsive and even too heavy to be moved by four men. In turbulent times when the voices of young people are so often ignored, Katori and I hope that the UK premiere of this extraordinary play will spark a conversation on ways to heal our own political, racial and religious divides. At the end of her studies at Kibeho, Alphonsine was immediately employed by the Diocese of Butare as a secretary and stenotypist at the Diocesan Service Centre for Catholic Education, at that time part of the prefecture of Gikongoro. The unfolding of the Rwandan genocidal tragedy in 1994, verifying with gruesome exactitude a prophecy given by Our Lady of Kibeho just a few years earlier, invites the reader to a sobering reflection: heavens call to repentance must not go unheeded. 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. She told the girl that she wanted to be loved by people everywhere so that she could bring lost souls to her Son Jesus. When Alphonsine's story was mocked by other students, she asked Mary to appear to others, so that they might believe. What is the target audience for the Independent newspaper. The Bishop had personally witnessed an increase in Sunday and daily Mass attendance throughout the country, and more of the faithful were returning to the Sacrament of Confession. Rwanda, known as the land of a thousand hills, is a small country about the size of the state of Maryland, located in Central Africa, situated between Tanzania on the east, Burundi on the south, Uganda on the north and Democratic Republic of Congo on the west. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. She was taken to a land of lighta place of communionwhere she saw seven angels singing indescribably beautiful hymns in praise of God. Yes, the Virgin Mary appeared at Kibeho on November 28th, 1981 and in the months that followed. Finally, on June 29, 2001 after careful studies by a commission of inquiry made up of scientists and theologians from other countries, the Church officially recognized the apparitions to the three schoolgirls of Kibeho. Alphonsine Mumureke. Here, three people, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, Alphonsine Mumureke and Claire Mukangango, received messages from Our Lady. A year later, in April 1995, tens of thousands of Hutu refugees were massacred in Kibeho by the troops of the new regime. But only the visions of the first three -- 17-year-old Alphonsine, 20-year-old Nathalie, and 21-year-old Marie Claire -- have received Bishop Misago's solemn approval. Learning of the opportunity, Alphonsines parish priest intervened, and she was accepted into the school. At the time of the apparitions she attended Grade 4 of the elementary level at Kibeho College. by Sr. M. Faustina Olson, F.H.I. Though the school was very poor and had no running water or electricity; Alphonsine was, nevertheless, grateful to be there. Her mother, Gaudence Mukabaziga, died on Octobre 17th, 1998 from malaria. The apparitions began in November 1981 when six young girls and one boy claimed to see the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus. Soon, the local faithful began to gather at the school grounds, hoping to hear the messages and to see the visionary. Sixteen-year-old Alphonsine Mumureke was privileged to attend Kibeho High school, an opportunity many poor Rwandan girls did not have. Thus, they gave priority to the first eight supposed visionaries: Those of the first year of the apparitions at Kibeho, i.e. May she accompany each one in his journey and obtain for him the gift of reconciliation and peace. Alphonsine was born on March 21, 1965, in Cyizihira, in the parish of Zaza, Diocese of Kibungo. Since 1998 it goes by "Groupe Scolaire Mere du Verbe" (School of the Mother of the Word). 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. Research was carried out in her family and her native region and there are specific reports and testimonies on this subject. Catholic Religious orders and the diocesan clergy opened schools, universities and banks. Unfortunately, they did not have a child, despite their strong desire to start a family. . When she told them that she had seen the Blessed Virgin, they started to laugh at her and mock her as they all crowded around her. During one of Marie-Claires visions, Our Lady told her that she had come to Rwanda because she was still able to find humble souls who were not attached to wealth. The two commissions worked according to the "Norms for Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations", published by the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith on February 24th, 1978 in Rome. article "Alphonsine Mumureke" is from Wikipedia, https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Alphonsine_Mumureke&oldid=2464770. Others asked her for proof to support her story. Alphonsine kept her job when the Diocese of Gikongoro was founded in 1992 up to the point in 1994 when she was forced to flee in order to survive the terrible genocide in Rwanda, first to the presbytery of the parish of Gikongoro and then to Bukavu in former Zaire, now D.R. Alphonsine's are no longer alive. Only the three initial testimonies merit being considered authentic; they were given by Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and by Marie Claire Mukangango. Then, on March 1, 1982, Marie-Claire fainted while walking in the gardens. The visionaries said to have seen her sometimes with joined hands, sometimes with outstretched arms. Our Lady first appeared to Alphonsine Mumureke, a student at Kibeho High School, on Nov. 28, 1981. The two commissions continued their task as usual and were reinforced with some new members. Marie-Claire, the leading antagonist, glared at her in total disgust and disbelief. After finishing school, she worked as a secretary in the Catholic education department of Butare in southern Rwanda. In the evaluation of the facts and the messages, only the public apparitions are taken into consideration. You should enable them to normally operate within their surroundings and go about their usual activities. In this context, Mons. Nathalie Mukamazimpaka stopped her studies after the apparitions and devoted herself totally to prayer. The Blessed Mother wanted Alphonsine to be like a little child to her: Play with me! 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