Word: mwanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest group of lay saints ever canonized by the Catholic Church at one time and the first Bantu Africans publicly honored by the church.†About half of the martyrs -some known only by their first names -were youthful pages in the court of Buganda's pagan King Mwanga, and were speared to death after they refused his homosexual advances. The other saints include Bugandan nobles, a potter and a shipbuilder, who were burned or beheaded when they refused to revert from Christianity to spirit-worship. In all, about 200 Catholic and Protestant converts died for Christianity during Mwanga...