Martyrs Of Uganda: Profile of St. Mukasa Kiriwawanvu

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31/05/2024

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St. Mukasa Kiriwawanvu. Credit: Ugandan Catholics Online

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Date of death 3 June 1886

Patronage Hotels bars and restaurants

Killed using Fire (burnt)

Biography
He is born at Mbale in Mawokota in Katende Parish. He is a son of Lumanyika Kirwamukyaayi and Malokuvaawo a mother from Busoga.

His father was a very good wrestler. Mukasa was a very handsome man, a giant of exceptional strength. He was alert and humorous and full of jokes. He was taken as a page to King Muteesa I As a page, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu was in charge of serving food to the visitors and his fellow pages.

Conversion
Mukasa is the only Martyr who received the Baptism of blood. He was not baptized since at the day when Charles Lwanga baptized the catechumens on 26th May 1886, he was in prison because of the case of having hit his fellow page Gyaviira.

The king ordered him to be burnt together with the other Christians. When he was asked whether he was Mukasa, the Christian, he fully professed his faith before them and thus was taken with the rest of the others and burnt at Namugongo on 3rd June 1886. He is the patron of hotels, bars and restaurants.

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Ugandan Catholics Online

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Daily Readings

Thursday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

First Letter to the Corinthians 8,1b-7.11-13.

Brothers and sisters : Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.
If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
But if one... loves God, one is known by him.
So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that "there is no idol in the world," and that "there is no God but one."
Indeed, even though there are so-called gods in heaven and on earth (there are, to be sure, many "gods" and many "lords"),
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and through whom we exist.
But not all have this knowledge. There are some who have been so used to idolatry up until now that, when they eat meat sacrificed to idols, their conscience, which is weak, is defiled.
Thus through your knowledge, the weak person is brought to destruction, the brother for whom Christ died.
When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ.
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to sin.

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