Gyaviira Mayanja Musoke
Ugandan Catholic martyr and saint
Feast: Martyrs' Day (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Uganda Martyrs (Luganda: Abajulizi ba Uganda) were a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity in the kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- Canonisation of the Martyrs of Uganda by Pope Paul VI, 18 October 1964 (vatican.va) — One of the twenty-two Uganda Martyrs burned at Namugongo on 3 June 1886, beatified in 1920 and canonised with St Charles Lwanga and companions by Paul VI in 1964; their memorial is 3 June in the General Roman Calendar ('
- Wikidata Q111678894 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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