Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta
Congolese martyr (1939–1964)
Feast: 1 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Alphonsine Anuarite Nengapeta was born at Wamba, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 29 December 1939, to a pagan family, and spent her whole life in Upper Zaire. She seemed to have no exceptional gifts.
A Sister of the Holy Family, Sister Marie-Clémentine, she was arrested with other sisters during the civil war. She urged them to keep vigil and pray, and firmly rejected the lustful demands of the soldiers' commander, who killed her in a fit of rage on 1 December 1964.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young Congolese sister who died for her fidelity to Christ, her Bridegroom.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Maria Clementina Anuarite
- Wikidata Q466996 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.