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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Charles Lwanga & Companions
DESCRIPTION:THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA \nFrom a homily by St Pope Paul VI2 \n◊◊◊ \nThe African martyrs add another page to the martyrology – the Church’s \nroll of honor – an occasion both of mourning and of joy. This is a page worthy \nin every way of being added to the annals of that Africa of earlier times\, which \nwe\, living in this era and being people of little faith\, never expected to be \nrepeated. \nIn earlier times there occurred those famous deeds\, so moving to the \nspirit\, of the martyrs of Scilli\, of Carthage\, and of that “white robed army” of \nUtica commemorated by Saint Augustine and Prudentius; of the martyrs of \nEgypt so highly praised by Saint John Chrysostom\, and of the martyrs of the \nVandal persecution. Who would have thought that in our days we should have \nwitnessed events as heroic and glorious? \nWho would have predicted to the famous African confessors and martyrs \nsuch as Cyprian\, Felicity\, Perpetua and – the greatest of all – Augustine\, that \nwe would one day add names so dear to us as Charles Lwanga and Matthias \nMulumba Kalemba and their twenty companions? Nor must we forget those \nmembers of the Anglican Church who also died in the name of Christ. \nThese African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the human \nmind might be directed not toward persecutions and religious conflicts but \ntoward a rebirth of Christianity and civilization! Africa has been washed by the \nblood of these latest martyrs\, the first of this new age (and God willing\, let them \nbe the last\, although such a holocaust is precious indeed). Africa is reborn free \nand independent. \n  \n2 The Liturgy of the Hours – vol II – Catholic Book Publishing Co. – New York – 1976 – p 1860.5 \n  \n 
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