At that time, Father Joseph Bezel, parish priest in France and a dear friend of Father Raymond Halter, helped Alphonsine to obtain a scholarship for the Business School of Castaing in Abidjan ,where she signed up for a three-year-programme of Business Secretary Education (from 1995/96 to 1997/98). She married in 1987 and obtained a teaching position. She was shown a river of blood, of decapitated heads, of corpses piled high upon each other, of untold destruction, torture, and hatred. Shortly before the apparitions she was admitted in Kibeho College in October 1981 in order to continue her studies after primary school. She was killed in the 1994 genocide along with her husband. She was just a simple schoolgirl with no transportation. Gabrielle Brooks, Yasmin Mwanza and Pepter Lunkuse in rehearsals for Our Lady of Kibeho. The Mother of Jesus wished to manifest herself in your country to some children, reminding them of the effectiveness of fasting and prayer, especially the prayer of the Rosary. 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. They are the ones who made Kibeho known as a place of apparitions and pilgrimage causing crowds of people to flock there. 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. The two commissions continued their task as usual and were reinforced with some new members. She was baptised on August 12th, 1966 at the age of 5. | Jan 16, 2017 | 2014, Marian Shrines | 0 comments. 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. Two words hover over the nations collective psychology: never again. She was baptised on July 27th, 1977 at the age of 12 years. While there her life took a decisive turn. Now she was constantly praying and tearfully asking forgiveness of the Virgin for her previous misdeeds. Weighing heavily in favor of approval was the verification of the August 15, 1982, prophetic vision of the mass slaughter. She received the habit on July 26, 2004, and made her first profession on July 15, 2006. It was from there that she was urgently transferred to Nairobi for medical care. Alphonsine was born on March 21, 1965, in Cyizihira, in the parish of Zaza, Diocese of Kibungo. The phenomena of the spiritual journeys of Anathalie and Alphonsine remained inexplicable from a human standpoint. Pour sa scurit, elle dut se rfugier au presbytre de la paroisse de Gikongoro. 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. She was forced to flee Kibeho in 1994 because of the Rwandan Genocide, and lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a few weeks before permanently moving to the Ivory Coast. Thus, they gave priority to the first eight supposed visionaries: Those of the first year of the apparitions at Kibeho, i.e. If you donate . The Blessed Mother wanted Alphonsine to be like a little child to her: Play with me! As work continues on the Shrine, so may Our Lady work in the hearts of all her children so that she may bring them to her Son, Jesus: Holy Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the cross in our lives, so that whatever is still lacking to the sufferings of Christ we may fill up in our own bodies for His mystical Body, which is the Church. 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. I do wish that you may make the Sanctuary of Kibeho radiate even more of that love of Mary for all her children, especially for the poorest and the most vulnerable. The others continued their verbal attack, laughing and waving their hands in front of her; but she was oblivious to her surroundings. She was completely unresponsive and even too heavy to be moved by four men. Our Lady poured out, as it were, so much love upon Alphonsine that she felt she would be lifted to heaven. On January 12, 1982, she appeared to Anathalie Mukamazimpaka, another devout seventeen-year-old student. The Belgians issued ethnic identity cards in 1926, causing a deepening of prejudice between the two peoples. 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. Up to a million people were killed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Others asked her for proof to support her story. They even wished that her case might one day provide the basis for new perspectives. On June 24th, 1982, the Blessed Virgin asked Nathalie to remain at Kibeho and, until further notice, fully engage herself in prayer life and mortifications for the salvation of the world. 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. Lateron, she was hosted in a community of the Daughters of Mary Queen of the Apostles Sisters up to May 1996. It would be unfortunate to misuse them as a kind of good luck charm" (abapfumu). During the war, between 800,000 and 1 million were killed. 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. var addy_text06979af1fb68ed1cff9c75452df96a61 = 'sanctuaire.kibeho' + '@' + 'gmail' + '.' + 'com';document.getElementById('cloak06979af1fb68ed1cff9c75452df96a61').innerHTML += ''+addy_text06979af1fb68ed1cff9c75452df96a61+'<\/a>'; Copyright Sanctuaire Notre Dame de Kibeho. Amen. 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. He prayed that it would be a holy place of prayer, conversion, and reparation for the world. 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. Script error: No such module "AfC topic". 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. Witnesses say that Marie Claire was killed in an attempt or defend or to find her husband kidnapped and lead together with other victims to an unknown destination. I am the mother of the word, replied the woman, whom Alphonsine immediately recognised as the Virgin Mary. 11www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1990/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19900908_stadio-nyamirambo_it.html. 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. The young professed was given the name of Alphonsine of the Glorious Cross ". On April 3, 2014, Pope Francis referred to Our Lady of Kibeho when addressing the bishops of Rwanda: Dear brothers, I want to assure you again of my closeness to you, and to your Diocesan communities, to the entire nation of Rwanda, and I entrust you all to the maternal protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is no love and no peace. 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. The history of the Church is replete with examples of Our Ladys watchful and solicitous care for the welfare of her children. 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. She recounted to her eager listeners her experience of a dark place of despair and another place full of laughter and joyous voices ringing praises to God. When Alphonsine's story was mocked by other students, she asked Mary to appear to others, so that they might believe. Perhaps the most significant vision occurred on August 15, 1982, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Marie Claire Mukangango was born in 1961 as the daughter of Basera and Vronique Nyiratuza in Rusekera, in the present district of Nyamagabe, in Mushubi parish, Diocese of Gikongoro. For reasons mentioned below, she was unable to complete her studies. In the evaluation of the facts and the messages, only the public apparitions are taken into consideration. Public are those apparitions that take place in the presence of various testimonies, which does not necessarily mean a crowd. Divine Providence had special designs for the three seers: In June 2003, Alphonsine entered the monastery of the Poor Clares in Abidjan. He encouraged her to study theology and catechesis until she obtained her theological baccalaureate. This choice, however, was a working hypothesis, not a presumption of authenticity for such a large number of visionaries. He looked after her until his death in December 1998. Father Gbangbo seems to have played a major role in Alphonsines life as a spiritual advisor, also having influence on the Archbishop of Abidjan, Cardinal Bernard Agr, with whom Alphonsine was able to get into contact. It is often she herself who welcomes individual pilgrims and assists them in anything they need or refers them to the chaplain if necessary. 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. Lateron, she was hosted in a community of the Daughters of Mary Queen of the Apostles Sisters up to May 1996. Entering into ecstasy, Alphonsine began to sing her accustomed song of welcome to Our Lady, but she stopped abruptly. 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. She had to leave Kibeho at the time of the genocide and, after a time in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she went to Nairobi, Kenya. She and her husband were among the thousands of victims of the Rwandan conflict. They resided in Gatsata compound in Kigali, at the road to Byumba. 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. Her father, Thadde Gakwaya was assassinated in September 1984. Back in London, I staged the world premiere of her play The Mountaintop, about the life and death of Martin Luther King, which went on to become the surprise winner of the best play award at the 2010 Oliviers and is now one of the most produced new plays in the US. This situation was subject of controversial public discussion, led by the investigation commissions as well as by temporary observers. Both the Germans and Belgians turned the relationship of the two ethnic groups, Tutsi and Hutu, into a class system which favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus. In 2004, Mumureke entered a Poor Clares monastery in Abidjan, where she continues to live as a nun today.[1]. 13www.nytimes.com/1995/04/24/world/as-many-as-2000-are-reported-dead-in-rwanda.html. 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. 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. Alphonsine Mumureke left in 1994 during the genocide and never came back. Returning to her room, she started to pray the Rosary with a few of her friends. The two commissions completed their investigation twenty years after their creation. What is the target audience for the Independent newspaper. Kibeho itself suffered two massacres. \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. There, they were caught off guard by the genocide of 1994. After these three apparitions, there were several more alleged appearances. 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. 2 . Here is how she relates the first Apparition: If you do not repent and convert your hearts, you will all fall into an abyss.8. At first, no one took the adolescent's claims seriously. The Tutsis ruled Rwanda in the early part of the century and were considered the upper class. 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. They conquered the government forces on July 4, 1994, a date now commemorated as a public holiday. - Developed by jofarsystems.com. In Katori Hall's "Our Lady of Kibeho," Ms. Okafor's professional stage debut, she plays Alphonsine Mumureke, one of three Rwandan schoolgirls who report Marian apparitions and dark . I first worked with Katori in New York in 2006. 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