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Happy feast of Blessed Isidore Bakanja, a Catholic martyr of the Belgian Congo.

Happy feast of Blessed Isidore Bakanja, a Catholic martyr of the Belgian Congo.

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Isidore Bakanja was a young black teenage martyr from the Boangi tribe in Zaire, Africa with plenty of zeal, valor, and faith for the gospel and Our Lady.

Born on 26 February in Zduny, Lódzkie, Poland; Died on gassed on 10 August at the prison camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany;.

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1887 – 15 August 1909) was a Congolese Catholic layman and bricklayer who suffered martyrdom in 1909 and was beatified on 24 April 1994 by Pope John Paul II. Due to the nature of his martyrdom, he is sometimes referred to as "martyr of the Brown scapular".

Life

Bakanja was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church at eighteen years of age through the ministry of Trappist missionaries in the Belgian Congo. He was a very devout convert and catechist. Bakanja had a great love for the Blessed Virgin Mary that he expressed through recitation of the rosary and by being invested in the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

His sacrifice is compared to that of Blessed Isidore Bakanja, another Congolese martyr beatified in by Pope John Paul II. (L.M.).

His Belgian colonist employers had ordered him to cease sharing the gospel as well as remove the Brown scapular that he wore. Isidore's refusal to comply with the demands of his supervisor resulted in his being brutally beaten and chained.

As a result of the beating and persistent ill treatment he received, Bakanja's wo