Saint kizito biography
Saint kizito biography
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Kizito
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1872-1886
Catholic Church
Uganda
Kizito was aged fourteen or fifteen when he died, the youngest of the Catholic martyrs of Uganda.
No baptismal name of his has been recorded, since he was baptized in haste by Saint Charles Lwanga during the night of May 25, 1886, before being sentenced to death for his faith by King Mwanga the following day. Kizito’s biological father was Lukomera of the Lung-fish (Mamba) Clan and his mother was Wangabira of the Civet Cat (Fumbe) Clan.
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Because of a blood-pact between the Lung-fish and Leopard Clans, and the assistance given by a member of the Lung-fish clan to Kiggwe of the Leopard clan, Kiggwe’s son Nyika adopted Kizito. Nyika had been Kangawo or county chief of Bulemezi and is mentioned by the explorer John Hanning Speke on his visit to Buganda in 1862.
Speke calls him “Congow.”
However, in 1874, only a few years after Kizito’s bi