Our Lady of Kibeho

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Our Lady of Kibeho (Kinyarwanda: Bikira Mariya w'Ikibeho, French: Notre-Dame de Kibeho), also known as Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho, is a Catholic title of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in the 1980s by several adolescents in Kibeho, south-western Rwanda. The young approved visionaries were Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka and Marie Claire Mukangango. The Kibeho apparitions apparently communicated various messages to the schoolgirls, including an apocalyptic vision of Rwanda descending into violence and hatred, possibly foretelling the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 2001, the local bishop of the Catholic Church officially recognised the visions of the first three schoolgirls as authentic. The Holy See also released the declaration of Augustin Misago, Bishop of Gikongoro, approving the apparitions.

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