![]() He inspired and encouraged his companions to remain chaste and faithful. He was also known as "the most handsome man of the Kingdom of the Uganda." He instructed his friends in the Catholic Faith and he personally baptized boy pages. He was the chief of the royal pages and was considered the strongest athlete of the court. He was baptized November 1885, a year before his death, and became a moral leader. Charles Lwanga and Companions Charles was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who converted from paganism. >Continue praying the Pentecost Novena to the Holy Spirit.<< Martin of Tours and was buried in Sainte-Genevieve in Paris, a church that she and Clovis founded. Her sons' quarrels caused her great sorrow. ![]() When Clovis died, Clotilde retired to Tours. They were married in 492 or 493, and she converted him to Christianity in 496. 466-511) she founded the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Franks for over 200 years. This took place at Namugongo, just outside Kampala. King Mwanga, who despised the Christian religion, gave orders that all the Christian pages in his service be laid upon a mat, bound, placed onto a pyre and burnt. Charles Lwanga, a catechist and a young leader, was martyred in 1886 with a group of Catholic and Anglican royal pages, some of whom were not yet baptized. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Today, together with the whole Church, we honor Charles Lwanga, and twenty-one other Ugandan martyrs. How precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his holy ones, alleluia. ยป Enjoy our Liturgical Seasons series of e-books! The Solemnity of Pentecost: An Element-ary Feast.Witnesses to the Eucharistic Christ | Cardinal Francis Arinze.We Honor the Ugandan Martyrs when We Carry on Their Witness to Christ | Pope Francis.Unyielding Faith: The Martyrs of Uganda | Joanna Bogle.Tribalism Is Defeated by Listening, Opening One's Heart, and Dialogue | Pope Francis.The Ugandan Martyrs Were Heroically Obedient | Cardinal Fernando Filoni.The Sacred Heart And The Eucharist | Fr.Special Assembly for Africa: The Church in Africa in Service to Reconciliation, Justice and Peace | Synod of Bishops.Sacred Heart Of Jesus, Mystery of God's Love | Pope Benedict XVI.Martyrdom for the Faith in Our Times | Cardinal Raymond L.Litany of the Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart | Unknown.Homosexual Immorality Pointed Out by Martyr Charles Lwanga and Companions | Fr.His Heart Is the Heart of the Church | Pope Saint John Paul II.Heart of Jesus, Our Peace and Reconciliation | Pope Saint John Paul II.Heart of Jesus, have mercy! | Pope Saint John Paul II.Haurietis Aquas (On the Sacred Heart) | Pope Pius XII.Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Sacred Scripture | Cardinal Raymond L.Ecclesia in Africa | Pope Saint John Paul II.Devotion To the Sacred Heart: Part II | P.Devotion To the Sacred Heart: Part I | P.Devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary: Its Origin and History | Alliance of Two Hearts & Immaculate Mediatrix.Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons | Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. ![]()
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