When he died Father Basile Gbangbo, a priest of the Archdiocese of Abidjan, took over as spiritual guide. 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. On another occasion, the Blessed Mother told Anathalie, When I show myself to someone and talk to them, I want to turn to the whole world. 5 . 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. Thus, they gave priority to the first eight supposed visionaries: Those of the first year of the apparitions at Kibeho, i.e. On the contrary, the successive local ordinaries were in favour of her. The two commissions completed their investigation twenty years after their creation. She justifies this by referring to personal messages from the Blessed Virgin, whom she calls "Umubyeyi", mother. They resided in Gatsata compound in Kigali, at the road to Byumba. Feminine Name French. The story of Our Lady of Kibeho began when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in Kibeho, Rwanda, during the 1980s, and identified herself as Nyina wa Jambo (Kinyarwanda for Mother of the Word) to three high school girls: Alphonsine Mumureke, Anathalie Mukamazimpaka and Marie-Claire Mukangango. Gabrielle Brooks, Yasmin Mwanza and Pepter Lunkuse in rehearsals for Our Lady of Kibeho. It would be imprudent to somehow "canonize"the visionaries of Kibeho while still alive. 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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. Catholic Religious orders and the diocesan clergy opened schools, universities and banks. 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. Mary identified herself to Alphonsine as "the Mother of the Word.". The two commissions completed their investigation twenty years after their creation. 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. . Amen. Here is how she relates the first Apparition: The visionaries said to have seen her sometimes with joined hands, sometimes with outstretched arms. Alphonsine fut embauche par le diocse comme secrtaire dactylographe au Service diocsain de lEnseignement Catholique Gikongoro. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one. In this context, Mons. Elle y a fait sa prise dhabit religieux le 6/07/2004 ; le noviciat dbuta le 31 Juillet de la mme anne. The authentic conversions of the seers proved that the Good Mother had come to reinforce the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Sixteen-year-old Alphonsine Mumureke was privileged to attend Kibeho High school, an opportunity many poor Rwandan girls did not have. Calming down a little, she went into the dining hall to serve. He looked after her until his death in December 1998. Marie Claire Mukangango had visions for six months, lasting from 2 March 1982 until 15 September 1982. The exact date and circumstances of their death are not (yet) elicited. The first apparition of Alphonsine took place on November 28th, 1981, her last exactly eight years later, on November 28th, 1989. Our Lady made her aware of her wrongful persecution of the other two seers. Others asked her for proof to support her story. 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.. They next traveled to Isesengurwaa place of purification where the light was dimthe inhabitants of which were at peace but also suffering. Alphonsine Mumureke is said to have taken, on March 20, 1982, a mystical journey of several hours with the Virgin in another world throughout places that she describes in symbolic language that makes one think of realities such as Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but with a vocabulary very different from the one of the Catechism. So much blood! The horror continued to unfold before her tear-filled eyes as she saw a million headless bodies piled up in a vast land, and not a single living person to help bury the dead. 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. 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. He looked after her until his death in December 1998. Discrimination and struggles between these two classes persisted through the 1990s, as the Tutsis were being excluded from public service and military jobs. Eighteen hours later, they were astonished to behold a suddenly wide-awake Alphonsine, smiling and serene. The sins of her children caused the heavenly Mother such deep sorrow that she cried bitterly as she pleaded for her children to pray and to love one another. She had always attended Mass on Sundays and had a special devotion to Our Lady. The last place, hell, was a most fearsome hot furnace where the only light was a shade of red that reminded Anathalie of congealed blood. Anathalie had to avert her gaze from the horrific scene of anguish and misery. The others continued their verbal attack, laughing and waving their hands in front of her; but she was oblivious to her surroundings. Rwanda became one of the African countries with the highest percentage of Catholics. The young professed was given the name of Alphonsine of the Glorious Cross ". Alphonsine Mumureke was born on March 21st, 1965, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kibungo, Rwanda. Civilians who had taken refuge in the parish church there in April 1994 were killed. 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. It was of a woman calling herself "Mother of the Word". Soon, the local faithful began to gather at the school grounds, hoping to hear the messages and to see the visionary. She was sent to the nurse, who in turn sent her to her room to rest. Public are those apparitions that take place in the presence of various testimonies, which does not necessarily mean a crowd. Anathalie Mukamazimpaka's visions began in January 1982 and ended on 3 December 1983. You should enable them to normally operate within their surroundings and go about their usual activities. 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. She told Anathalie on May 15, 1982, A child of Mary does not reject suffering. Like the children of Fatima, the Kibeho seers were asked to accept suffering and mortifications for the salvation of souls. Thousands of citizens were brutally killed in the parish church and, a year later, on the esplanade where the apparitions had taken place. 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. Even though this apparition was shorter, it took her longer to regain full consciousness. In 2001, after a 20-year investigation by the Vatican and seven years after the genocide the pope certified the apparitions as authentic. In the end, they could not prove the visionary and her position wrong. She was able to return to Rwanda in early December 1996. Lateron, she was hosted in a community of the Daughters of Mary Queen of the Apostles Sisters up to May 1996. 2Our Lady of Kibeho, Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin, 2009, 4th ed, Hay House, Inc., p. 35. Under the guiding hand of Our Lady, her feisty, rude behavior ceased. 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. As Alphonsine recounted the graphic vision, horrified parents left the scene, fearing that further descriptive words from the seer would traumatize their children. Our Lady floated toward her without touching the ground. Most probably this caused he to reread the message of the apparitions (and particularly that of August 15th, 1982) with great pain, trying to establish a link between what the Virgin Mary had said and the tragedy which descended upon Rwanda and her neighbouring countries. It was from there that she was urgently transferred to Nairobi for medical care. Unable to answer her friends questions, the distraught Marie-Claire began to pen a letter to her mother asking permission to come home. Most of the colleges students were murdered. The next day, one of the students, Marie-Claire, led a group of fellow students in a confrontation with Alphonsine. In the evaluation of the facts and the messages, only the public apparitions are taken into consideration. This choice, however, was a working hypothesis, not a presumption of authenticity for such a large number of visionaries. The situation became more and more confusing and it was therefore difficult for the church authorities to find the truth. 10Our Lady of Kibeho, Immacule Ilibagiza, Hay House Inc., pg 147. Australian soldiers serving as part of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda estimated at least 4,000 people in the camp were killed by soldiers of the military wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, known as the Rwandan Patriotic Army. The visionaries said to have seen her sometimes with joined hands, sometimes with outstretched arms. Marie Claire and Elie formed a happy couple. Research was carried out in her family and her native region and there are specific reports and testimonies on this subject. She was able to return to Rwanda in early December 1996. 3 . TheHunters: the small UN unit that tracked down Rwandas worst killers, 'Finding them is not rocket science': the hunt for the Rwandan genocide fugitives, Twenty-year search for Rwanda genocide suspect ends in Zimbabwe grave, Daughter of Hotel Rwanda dissident criticises Belgium's response to arrest, surprise winner of the best play award at the 2010 Oliviers. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Even if the three visionaries mentioned above are the only ones officially approved by the Catholic Church, they were not the only ones who claimed to have been favoured by apparitions at Kibeho. A Bukavu elle fut aussitt prise en charge par certaines familles du lieu qui lavaient connue Kibeho loccasion des\rapparitions ou des plerinages.\rMais quelques trois ou quatre semaines plus tard, Alphonsine poursuivit sa route jusquen Cte dIvoire, plus exactement Abidjan. 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 student-visionaries said Our Lady also expressed her sadness at the sin in the world and invited people to recite the rosary of the seven sorrows and to be more diligent in prayer. Only the three initial testimonies merit being considered authentic; they were given by Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and by Marie Claire Mukangango. She justifies this by referring to personal messages from the Blessed Virgin, whom she calls "Umubyeyi", mother. 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. At the time of the civil war and genocide of 1994, she remained at Kibeho, at the scene of two terrible massacres. It is often she herself who welcomes individual pilgrims and assists them in anything they need or refers them to the chaplain if necessary. Augustin Misago, Declaration bearing the final judgement on the event of the "Apparitions of Kibeho", n 14.). 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. She asked the seers to promote and pray the Chaplet of Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a most beautiful placea grassy plain filled with sparkling droplets of color. She told the girl that she wanted to be loved by people everywhere so that she could bring lost souls to her Son Jesus. The most active period of these apparitions ended with the year 1983. This encouraged Nathalie to return home after two years of absence. In 1981, when Alphonsine was admitted, the school was called "College de Kibeho"; later in early 1984 it was named "Ecole des lettres de Kibeho" (Humanistic School of Kibeho). At the time of the apparitions she attended Grade 4 of the elementary level at Kibeho College. Congo, where she sought refuge at the house of befriended families, who knew her from Kibeho. In the early hours of the genocide, she fled Kibeho and an Ivorian-Congolese couple took her to the DR-Congo and then to the Cte d'Ivoire. 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. In its discernment, the Church installed two commissions in 1982, one medical and one theological, which should investigate the events of Kibeho using scientifically valid methods. A few days later, Alphonsine did not appear for dinner. var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; Tuesday - Sunday through December 7, $25 212-244-7529 www.signaturetheatre.org Congo) family whom she had also met during the time of the apparitions at Kibeho, she she continued her tragical journey up to Abidjan at Ivory Coast a few weeks later and got into contact with Father Raymond Halter, a Marian priest who knew her since her last apparition on November 28th, 1989. Many others soon arrived: the school nurse to take her vitals and assess her medical condition; a Red Cross Official to conduct tests; a member of the Commission of Enquiry to note the facts; Abbot Augustin Misago, the spiritual guide (later the Bishop of Gikongoro, who would officially make a declaration in favor of the authenticity of the apparitions); and two seminarians, along with the entire school staff. Of course we now know that, a decade after the Trinitys terrible visions, Rwanda was riven by a terrible genocide. Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was established after the genocide; and thousands of pilgrims, increasing in numbers year by year, were visiting the Shrine. Ses parents sappelaient Thadde GAKWAYA et Marie Immacule MUKARUSANA.\r27 juillet 1977, Alphonsine est baptise lge de 12 ans. She was baptized when she was 12 years old, on July 27 1977. 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. You should enable them to normally operate within their surroundings and go about their usual activities. The visionaries of Kibeho are no exception from the rule. 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. It is estimated that, in just three months, almost one million were killed as the extremist Hutus targeted the minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. 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. When she awoke from the nightmare, she found two friends supporting her, questioning her and advising her to return to the dormitory. She also likes to attend Holy Mass. Augustine Misago, Bishop of Gikongoro declared the final judgement on the event of the apparitions of Kibeho on June 29th, 2001, in agreement with the members of the two commissions and with the Magisterium of the Universal Church in Rome as well as with the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda. http://libcom.org/history/articles/Rwanda-burundi-history. If I am turning to the parish of Kibeho, it does not mean that I am concerned only for Kibeho, or for the Diocese of Butare, or for Rwanda, or for the whole of Africa. With the help of an Ivorian-Congolese (D.R. The first time that the Virgin Mary appeared to Nathalie was on January 12th, 1982, the last time on December 3rd, 1983. 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. He encouraged her to study theology and catechesis until she obtained her theological baccalaureate. Whenever God called someone for a special mission in the history of salvation, He chose him / her right there, in their actual personal circumstances, and used him / her as he / she is, with his / her personality and character traits, all his / her qualities and personal shortcomings, capabilities and limitations. The longest series of visions were attributed to Alphonsine Mumureke, who had received the initial vision shortly after her admittance into Kibeho High School in October 1981 after her primary education, and the last on November 28, 1989.. She completed her secondary school studies at the Humanistic School of Kibeho in July 1989 with a secretary degree (level A2). Our Lady exhorted them to pray always and to teach others to pray with greater zeal and purity of heart. Many sins are being committed. This email address is being protected from spambots. Augustin Misago, a former member of the theological commission himself. Then she heard a voice calling her. 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. In 1900, they built (of thatch) the first Catholic ChurchThe Church of the Holy Spirit of Save. Their message is in conformity with the Sacred Scripture and the living Tradition of the Church. 341 Butare / RwandaCentral AfricaThis email address is being protected from spambots. Alphonsine Mumureke left in 1994 during the genocide and never came back. Hence, starting from September 1983, she first taught in her home parish Mushubi and thereafter in Kigali from September 1987. Most of them were Tutsis. Only the three initial testimonies merit being considered authentic; they were given by Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and by Marie Claire Mukangango. article "Alphonsine Mumureke" is from Wikipedia, https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Alphonsine_Mumureke&oldid=2464770. Their message is in conformity with the Sacred Scripture and the living Tradition of the Church. In the case of the three visionaries named above, who are at the origin of the fame of Kibeho, nothing that they said or did during the apparitions is contrary to Christian faith and morals. When Alphonsine awoke, she was overwhelmed by the love she felt. Her father, Thadde Gakwaya was assassinated in September 1984. Pronunciation of Alphonsine Mumureke with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Alphonsine Mumureke. She met Father Raymond Halter (1925-1998), a French Marianist priest and promoter of a great Marian devotion at the national Marian shrine of Cte d'Ivoire. They resided in Gatsata compound in Kigali, at the road to Byumba. Alphonsine Mumureke left in 1994 during the genocide and never came back. Alphonsine began the song as directed: People are not grateful, / They dont love me, / I came from heaven for nothing, / I left all the good things there for nothing. The director grabbed the school nurse and summoned Abbot Augustin Misago, a leading member of the Commission of Enquiry. During 100 days in 1994, up to a million of Rwandas population of just over seven million were murdered by the ruling Hutu government in an attempt to exterminate the Tutsi tribe. Fortunately, the Benebikira Sisters had just come back to Kibeho and reopened their convent, the school and the health centre. The change was so instantaneous that some of the girls were confused and made the sign of the Cross. 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