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4 unusual facts about Benebikira Sisters


Ann Fox

They were able to secure the Benebikira Sisters of Rwanda as a partner to help set up and administer the school.

Benebikira Sisters

Beginning in 1980, the Benebikira Secondary School for Girls in Kibeho was the site of a series of Marian apparitions to three of its students.

Therese proposed that Mary, the Mother of Sorrows, be their model and built a small African style chapel dedicated to her at the Mother House in Save, a small rural village where the first Catholic Church in Rwanda was built.

In 2008 the Benebikira opened a 350 room dormitory in Butare for women students at the National University of Rwanda, to provide safe, affordable housing so that more women could attend the University.



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