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2 unusual facts about Legio Maria


Legio Maria

This village of about 600 is approximately 15 km west of the southwestern Kenya town of Migori.

In 1963 a movement of dissatisfied Roman Catholics in South Nyanza Province left the Diocese of Kisii and formed the Legio Maria Church, or Legion of Mary Church, under the leadership of the Lodvikus-son of God Simeo Melkio Ondetto and an old mystic woman named Mama Maria.



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