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Yakobo Buzabaliawo

Blessed

Feast: 3 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1857
Died
1886
Beatified
6 June 1920
unverified
Canonised
—
not yet

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.

Summary of the Wikipedia article Uganda Martyrs, which covers Yakobo Buzabaliawo with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.

The miracles

Limited information is available on this saint so far.

Why that counted as sanctity

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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.

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Sources

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