Following the request of Pope Leo XIII in 1878 to attribute to missionaries the inter-African regions of Tanganyika in Africa,
which extends, for example, from north to south with the present republics of Zambia and the Congo,
ten of them went the same year to the kingdom of Buganda, situated in present-day Uganda,
and were even received by King Mutesa, who authorized them and their confreres temporarily left behind
to establish the Catholic mission of Rubaga near theroyal palace in Kampala, the capital.
In addition to their evangelising work
in predominantly pagan lands,
they also had to prepare to fight two non-Catholic religions
that had settled in the region before their arrival :
Anglicanism and Islam.
But these difficulties did not prevent the creation of a small group of catechumens.
Among the first converts were some officials and a few pages of the royal residence.
The baptism of the first four Ugandans took place on March 27 March.
4 others were baptized two months later.
Despite the zeal of the recent baptized and the catechumens, the future of the Ugandan Church could give reason to the most pessimistic.
When the missionaries felt their lives threatened,
they thought it wise to leave the country and await for better days.
Leaving, they left behind them 20 baptized and 250 catechumens.
In absence of the Fathers, Christians and old catechumens became their own apostles.
They spontaneously divided into small communities managed by catechists.
When the missionaries returned from exile in 1885,
the new king, Mwanga, gave them a warm and enthusiastic reception.
But, alas, it was short lived.
Those who were opposed to the missionaries, especially the Prime Minister and the Arabs,
succeeded in convincing the king that it was an intrusion of the Whites, intended to overthrow him.
He therefore began to suspect the Europeans, both Catholics and Anglicans, and all those who accompanied them.
This suspicion of the king was going to be the triggering element of the martyrdom of many Catholics.
The king, still filled with fury, also decided to kill his intimate counselor named Joseph, a Mugandan who had become a Christian.
The king had been influenced by his prime minister,
a dishonest calculator who was trying to speed up the killing of Joseph for fear of being unmasked.
On reaching the place of execution, Joseph, who had lost nothing of his usual calm, turned to the executioner and said :
"You will tell from my part to Mwanga that he condemned me unjustly, but I forgive him with good heart.
You will add that I strongly advise him to repent, for if he does not repent, he will have to plead with me at the tribunal of God."
The executioner promised to do the commission, and cut off his head.
His body was then delivered to the flames.
The last words of Joseph were reported to the king.
At first he affected to laugh at it, but they soon made a profound impression on him.
To put Joseph into the impossibility of attacking him in the court of God, he had another Muganda killed,
and ordered to mix the ashes of the two victims with the greatest care :
"How can he plead now?" said he triumphantly.
With Joseph, 2 or 3 pages of the court were killed, guilty, like him, of practicing the religion of Jesus Christ.
At the same time the king declared that he would exterminate all the Christians of his kingdom,
and that he would put to death or chase the missionaries.
Little by little a relative calm succeeded this first storm,
and the missionaries were able to continue to instruct the faithful who had received baptism recently,
and also the catechumens,
whose ardor, far from slowing down at the sight of Joseph's execution, had only increased.
If the fire caused by these first martyrs gave the impression of having been extinguished,
all that was needed was a spark to rekindle it. Now here's when it came from.
On May 25, 1886, Mwanga did not appreciate at all that some of his servants were absent to fulfill his desires.
When he learned that they were attending religious ceremonies, he became so angry
that he invited his leaders to a meeting to decide on the fate of these Christians whom he accused of having rebelled against him and the royalty .
The assembly decided that all those who will refuse to deny Christianity will lose their lives.
The servants were then invited to publicly define their position before the king and his notables.
The brave men who declared that they wished to remain Christians were condemned to death.
A missionary priest interceded in vain in their favor.
The place chosen for execution was Namugongo, about 10 kilometers from the capital;
one of the condemned was killed in Mengo, on the road to execution.
Clara Nalmasi, the daughter of King Mtéça, who had been converted for a few months to our holy religion,
had been appointed to guard the tomb of one of the ancient kings of Uganda.
She could not bear all the superstitions and spells which went there, and began to burn the amulets, gathered there in great numbers,
and began to burn the amulets, gathered there in great numbers, and to chase away the sorcerers
who pretended to be possessed from mizimou (souls of the dead) or loubaale (divinities)
After these preliminaries, which greatly scandalized the pagans, on the 22nd of May
she did something so atrocious in their eyes that they shouted against what was for them a sacrilege.
She broke into pieces and threw into a hole a coarse amulet
which princes and princesses preserve with the most religious respect,
and which, after their death, is the object of a ridiculous and often barbarous cult.
It is believed that the soul of the deceased resides there, and it is not uncommon that it demands human sacrifices, which are never refused to it.
To prevent the evil that could be done after her death, because of this amulet,
Clara found nothing more simple than to treat like she did...
It must be added that she did not consult the missionaries, and that all the merit of the act belongs to her.
The news of a sacrilege, hitherto unheard-of, soon spread and,
as may be imagined, was attributed to the religion which Nalmasi had embraced, and to those who had taught her religion.
According to general opinion, the irritated devinities of this profanation would avenge themselves by some public calamity
which corroborates what I say in the video (in French for now) about the tribes and which I still invite you to watch.
They spoke of appeasing them by burning Nalmasi and her husband and falling upon all the Christians.
A few days later Mwanga, walking during the evening in his capital, surprised a young Christian, Denys Sebouggoua, instructing one of his companions.
- What are you doing here ? asked the king.
"Teaching catechism," replied Denys.
Already exasperated by the crime of Nalmasi, Mwanga enters into fury.
"Wait," said he, "I will cure you of your insolence."
At the same time he pierces Denis with his spear. The poor child collapses and falls down in his blood.
The immolation of this innocent victim was the signal of persecution.
A large-scale massacre, as the missionary priest Lourdel recounts in his diary:
"In spite of the rain that falls and turns the roads into quagmires,
I head towards Mounyounyou, the present residence of Mwanga, located 3 hours walk from Sainte-Marie de Roubaga, our residence.
On the way I meet some neophytes [ie, recently baptized people] who tell me the arrest of Joseph Mkasa's successor : Honorat.
Soon I perceived bands of men armed with rifles, spears, and shields, which march at pace.
. I am told that these bands of looters have just been thrown at the principal Christian centers to ravage them and chain the chiefs.
I shall arrive too late, I said to myself, to ward off the storm.
I continue my journey, my heart full of sadness.
What will happen to me? I commend myself to God, making to him the sacrifice of my life.
Here I am at the royal residence. Everything is calm, but it is a calmness of death.
The few people I meet look at me with astonishment and seem to say:
« You dare to come before the kabaka (the king) on such a day. What audacity! »
As I tried to hide my emotion, I steadily climbed up the slope leading to the waiting-room, where the Prime Minister was sitting.
I greet as usual and head for the inner courtyards near the King's hut,
in which, to my astonishment, they allow me to penetrate without any difficulty.
My astonishment is at its peak when I see our Christians free to go quietly aside and as if nothing extraordinary had happened.
Is all that I have been told a fable? or am I the toy of a dream?
Alas! no. The Lord only wished to reserve for me the sad consolation of seeing with my own eyes my dear children being chained up,
and of telling them a last farewell when they are about to deliver their supreme battle on this land of exile .
Soon, in fact, I see every leader of the group gathering his people near the door of the court, in which is located the royal hut.
Many laugh, some look a little intimidated,
while others answer proudly to their pagan friends, who say to them :
You should have fled!
Fled, and why?
Charles Lwanga, the leader of the group of pages where we count the most neophytes, is called first with his band.
They are greeted with boos, dominated by the thundering voice of the king. He reproaches them most bitterly about their religion,
then says to them: "Let those who pray stand in that direction."
Immediately Charles Lwanga and Kizito, a young catechumen of a firmness of character quite rare at this age,
proceeded to the appointed place. All the Christians in his group immediately follow their example.
Charles and Kizito agreed, in order to encourage each other and not to weaken at the decisive moment, to stand hand by hand.
At a sign from the king, the executioners throw themselves on these courageous confessors of the faith,
catch them in their big ropes and carry them brutally outside the court.
The heroic troop stops a few paces from me.
The young men from 18 to 25 years old are tied together.
Children form another bundle. They are so tight that they can only walk in small steps and collide with each other.
I see Kizito laughing at a position so bizarre, his face as serene as if he had played with his comrades.
Kizito is the son of one of the greatest lords of the kingdom. Many of his brothers have long embraced our holy religion and practice it with admirable courage.
Kizito is worthy of his elders.
For a long time he had been importuning me to receive baptism, [Lourdel still speaking] telling me that Mwanga would soon kill him.
He happened to spend the night in our hut, declaring that he would not leave until I had fixed the happy day when he would be given to become a child of God.
I remember being forced once, to get rid of his importunities, to take him in my arms and to make him pass through the window.
At last, seeing him so ardent, so well disposed, I had promised him lately to baptize him in a month. [explication later in the video about these shocking statements !]
As a means of obtaining permission to absent himself from the court for a few days, and thus being able to prepare himself easily to receive holy baptism,
I was obliged to give him an emetic which would lead to the belief of a disease of cure.
Lourdel : « But the good God had decided and it would be worth to him that this soul of elite would be regenerated in his own blood » [again, explication later for the shocking sentence]
Charles Lwanga went out with his troops, and the group of pages designated under the name of Bagalagala was introduced to the king.
We have among them only a small number of neophytes and catechumens.
They are as firm as the first, and like them are chained by the executioners.
The pagan Bagalagas make the air ring with their cries of joy, thanking His Majesty for the forgiveness of the crime of praying.
They have never committed it, it is true, but here we are so often wrongly condemned that we regard it as a great favor,
when we have been suspected of a fault, to get away without losing at least the ears or the eyes if not life itself.
While passing in front of me [Lourdel], the Christians salute me with their eyes,
while I pray to Him who is the strength of the martyrs athletes, to fill their hearts of graces,
necessary even to the saints, to persevere in the confession of the faith in the midst of torment.
Nevertheless, emotion dominates me, and feeling my strength falter I lean against a palisade of reeds, praying to the Mother of Sorrows,
who had the strength to stand at the foot of the cross, to help me.
Like her, I am powerless to repress the rage of the executioners whom I see brutally bringing their victims.
It is not even permissible for me to address my dear children a last exhortation,
and I must content myself with considering their faces, on which are depicted at once a gentle resignation, a holy joy, and a courageous manliness.
In spite of the sadness that overflows my heart, I glorify God and thank him for the honors he makes possible for the Mission of Uganda,
deigning to choose these children as first witnesses of faith among Africans.
After the employees of the court, a young soldier, James Bouzabaliao, is summoned before the king.
This young neophyte was remarkable for his naive simplicity and for the zeal with which he taught the children of the capital.
Mwanga had already threatened him with death if he kept talking about religion.
But these threats had not intimidated him, and he continued with the same ardor his apostolate.
The King also reproached him for having tried to instruct and convert him: so many crimes which were to make him one of the first victims.
Scarcely had the king call for him that James was running towards the royal hut.
"It is you," said Mouanga, "who are the chief of the Christians of Kigoa?"
"I am a Christian, it is true," replied James, "but the title of chief you give me does not belong to me."
"This young man," replied the king, "think he's a tough guy ; seeing him one could take him for the Mkouenda (great lord of the country).
"Thank you very much," replied Bouzabaliao jokingly, "of the great lordship you give me."
"That is the one," added the king, "who once wished to make me embrace religion!"
Executioners, take him away, and kill him very quickly. It is through him that I want to begin.
Farewell ! said the young man without feeling moved; I go up to heaven, pray God for you.
An immense burst of laughs welcomes these words, incomprehensible to poor pagans:
" They must", they say, "have lost their reason to speak thus. "
James passes before me with a rope around his neck, led by the executioner who is going to execute him.
I raise my hand to give him a final absolution. He answers me by raising his chained hands, to show me the sky and to meet me there.
He is smiling, as if he were going to a party, and seems to say to me,
"Father, why are you sad? That is very little; I've been preparing for it for a long time ... "
Okay, I would like to return without delay to the death of the young Kizito,
of whom it is said to have died "bathed in his own blood",
some might immediately believe in a baptism of blood as do so many heretics pro-baptism of desire, blood.
After several inquiries, they learned later that the young Kizito was baptized in prison on the eve of their martyrdom.
This explains why certain authors who tell the lives of saints or martyrs do not know all what the people may have done.
Even for the Ugandan martyrs, the only statement of John 3,5 is absolute proof of the necessity of baptism for salvation,
not like those false traditionalists who want to keep members of false religions and save them at the same time, making them believe in the so-called baptism of blood and desire.
Note also that the description of the missionary priest in the events
surrounding the baptism the young Kizito wanted to receive is absolutely scandalous.
This is another proof that apostasy began before Vatican II.
This priest was not alarmed more than that by postponing baptism in spite of the imminent threat of death!
But God made sure that the Ugandans who were of the Truth receive baptism before dying.
This missionary priest seemed to believe in the heresy of the baptism of blood, unless it was the author of the narrative who would have misrepresented his words.
Regardless, according to this shameful description, the priest was not alarmed either by the fact
that there were catechumens in those condemned to death.
The famous missionary Saint Isaac Jogues would have been appalled at this attitude,
because he risked his life, for example, by giving baptism to two American Indians with dewdrops on a corn, and they were going to be burned alive!
One can only hope that the catechumens who were killed had also received baptism earlier as Kizito.
Otherwise, they were not of the truth and did not deserve baptism.
On June 3, 1886, Catholics were molested by spears and torches, then wrapped in mats and thrown into flames.
During their atrocious torture, the Catholics remained steadfast in their faith and encouraged each other
especially the young ones like Kizito, who was only 14 years old. They died in serenity and prayer.
The last Catholic executioner, Jean-Marie Muzeeyi, was decapitated;
his body was thrown into a swamp near Mengo, a suburb of the capital. " [end of Lourdel's description]
The life of these Catholic Martyrs was an excellent episode of the Christian faith in Africa.
Just as the blood of the Martyrs of the Third Legion of St. Maurice was a fertilizer for the Western churches,
it might be said that the blood of the first martyrs of Black Africa in Uganda was that of Africa.
We see that the Arab-Muslims opposed the missionaries, and that there is therefore a religious struggle in the conquest of souls.
Islam conquers to damn them, and the Catholic faith reverses it.
Protestant sects are instruments of the devil used to prepare the way for other more powerful antichrists and to apostatize people out of the one Church of Jesus.
This is why I dismiss all ideas of Anglican Martyrs, who are not in the unity of the Holy Church, but have separated themselves from the Church
after the schism in the 16th century by the English adulterous king Henry VIII.
The only martyrs to be mentioned are Catholic martyrs, because Catholicism is true Christianity.
The Ugandan Martyrs still recall the legionaries of Mauricius in the service rendered to non-Catholic authorities.
These martyrs did not fail to serve the king properly, as did the Christians performing their duty of State, unless this duty were contrary to Catholic morality.
It can be imagined that, despite the murder of the first martyrs, it was possible that, even after,
other Christians could continue to work in the kingdom until it was no longer possible for them,
that is to say until the authorities oblige them to apostatize - an impossibility for those who wish to remain faithful to Jesus Christ,
in which case it implies invoking the Holy Spirit to be strengthen during the ordeal.
Despite the bravery of the martyrs, the Catholic duty does not allow us to give them the title of saint,
like the Vatican II sect in its false authority has rashly permitted istelf.
The arguments on this subject can be found in the video on Sister Bakhita.
But since they were beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920, they can be called Blessed.
This is the first step towards a canonization, which can only be carried out under a true pope,
which is not our case today, in this Sedevacantist period, that is to say a period when the Seat of Saint Peter, is vacant.
The undisciplined who do not wish to recognize this fact and who feel the need to find themselves in a catholically agreeable setting for the eyes,
sometimes express the objection that the Catholic Church and its hierarchy will always be visible.
And that if the Vatican II Church is not the true Catholic Church, then the Church and its hierarchy would no longer be visible.
To which we will answer: 1) People misunderstand in what the visibility of the Church consists;
2) the Vatican II sect cannot be the visible Church of Christ;
and 3) the Vatican II sect denies this very teaching on the visibility of the Church.
No one denies that the Catholic Church could cease to exist in all the countries of the world except one.
The visibility of the Church does not require that the faithful or the hierarchy be seen in every single geographical location around the globe.
This has never been the case. Simply, the visibility of the Church signifies real Catholic faithful who externally profess the one true religion, even if they are reduced to a very small number.
These faithful who externally profess the one true religion will always remain the visible Church of Christ, even if their ranks are reduced to just a handful.
And that is precisely what is predicted to happen at the end of the world.
St. Athanasius: "Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
The argument is that, while today we are dealing with an unprecedented apostasy, the Church has previously experienced times of confusion,
including times when the true hierarchy was not easily identifiable.
That said, there are also people in our day who claim to dismiss any idea of evangelization on African soil, such as Panafricanists Assani Fassassi or Kemi Seba,
who see in the Cross a Western import damaging the so-called religion and true African spirit.
Mbog Bassong, an Egyptologist geologist, said more clearly in a video that "religion aims to control minds and behavior" and that one cannot be "African and Christian"
Asia, China and India do not need Christianity or Islam to be where they are.
Where does it come from that Africans have clung to Christianity or Islam to get by?
The Jewish is Jewish, the Arab is Arab.
You hear Christian Europe: it does not want to be done with Islam!
Where does it come from that Africans want to be Africans by not having a religion of their own?
They want to be Africans by being Muslim;
they want to be Africans by being Christians; they want to be Africans by being Buddhists ...
What Africa do you want to create in this method?
So you understand very well that you need to know what religion is.
Religion aims to control minds and behaviors.
It's complete NONSENSE ; revealing a blatant egoism and an autocentric cultural focus that blinds the perpetrators of such an argument.
It is enough to take some interest in the actions of early Christians, especially in Europe - one might quote Saint Blandine of Lyon - to see striking similarities with the Ugandan martyrs.
. All have stood firm in faith in the persecution of the impious. This link between all these martyrs is therefore an universal principle that goes beyond any idea of frontiers and continents.
Understand that this comparison is credible by the period of implantation of the Catholic faith in pagan land.
Before being Christian, Europe was Pagan, and the various tribes which inhabited it might be compared with those of Africa; not only in manners but also in anti-Christian persecutions.
I will not dwell here on detailing the circumstances and events in the deaths of the European Catholic martyrs,
as some research on the Internet would suffice to prove the point, and I think that most of my listeners already have the idea .
So I come back to our Ugandan martyrs.
On their side, the enemies of the Christian name did not neglect any opportunity of exciting the king against the baptized and the catechumens.
Since he had killed Joseph, Mwanga listened with pleasure to the most ridiculous calumnies,
seemed to believe in them and affected a great contempt for religion and those who practice it.
He even said : "I will finish with them, I will have them massacred.
These Christians obtain from God all they want.
Formerly they looked upon me as their friend, they prayed for me, and God removed from me the perils.
Now they will ward off God from overthrowing me. I must at all costs get rid of these villains!"
This example is interesting : so there was a clear desire in those Christians to serve uncompromisingly the only true God,
cause it's a fact that a Catholic can't pray with a non-Catholic or pray for a non-Catholic unless for his conversion,
which earned the massive persecution of Christians in the history of the holy Church.
We thus find the same principle in all tribes and civilizations, which refutes the argument of Pan-Africanists as to the so-called European interference in Catholicism.
Uganda's motto is "For God and my Country."
The Ugandan Martyrs died to remain in the Catholic Church, into which they entered through their baptism.
Who will have the audacity to affirm that these brothers in the only saving faith would defend today the apostate sect in Rome ?!
They who lived in a country where the Church was a minority, in a similar way to the first European Christians who survived in the catacombs and hunted like wild beasts ?!
Africans, do not listen to the nonsense of a so-called Western interference when we speak about the supernatural faith that comes from God the Creator of all men!
Take the example of the Ugandan Martyrs. If you love your country, think constantly about the basis of Catholicism, of what gives it its full meaning;
leave the Vatican II Sect to follow Jesus and enter the last square of the faithful professing the traditional faith; the only solution to see prosperity.
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