Charles Lwanga
Charles Lwanga , born in 1865 and dead the June 3rd 1886, is an Ugandan martyr, canonized by the Catholic church. Born in the kingdom from Buganda, in the south of current the Uganda, it was page at the court of the king Mwanga II.
Mwanga required that its subject converted with the Christianisme give up their new faith, and made carry out many catholics and Anglicans between 1885 and 1887; number of them resided at the court of the king, or of it were very close, and in particular Charles Lwanga. After a massacre of Anglicans in 1885, the catholic priest residing at the court, Joseph Mukasa, reproached this crime to the king. Mwanga made decapitate Mukasa and stop all its faithful. Lwanga baptized those of its pupils who had commecné their catechumenate, before being burned alive on June 3rd, 1886. According to the lawsuit of canonization, one of the reasons of the anger of the king was the refusal of the Christians of taken part in homosexual acts.
Charles Lwanga and those which had died in its sides were canonized in 1964 by the pope Paul VI. The martyrdom of the Anglicans was also recognized by the pope. Today, Charles Lwanga - with the other martyrs of Uganda - fact the object of a devotion very particular in Africa, where many schools and parishes bear its name.
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