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| | Description | Thirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a million people dead, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ appeared to eight young people in the remote village of Kibeho. Through these visionaries, Mary and Jesus warned of the looming holocaust, which (they assured) could be averted if Rwandans opened their hearts to God and embraced His love. Mary also sent messages to government and church leaders to instruct them how to end the ethnic hatred simmering in their country. She warned them that Rwanda would become “a river of blood”—a land of unspeakable carnage—if the hatred of the people was not quickly quelled by love. Some leaders listened, but very few believed. The prophetic and apocalyptic warnings tragically came true during 100 horrifying days of savage bloodletting and mass murder. Much like what happened at similar sites such as Fátima and Lourdes, the messengers of Kibeho were at first mocked and disbelieved. But as miracle after miracle occurred in the tiny village, tens of thousands of Rwandans journeyed to Kibeho to behold the apparitions. After the genocide, and two decades of rigorous investigation, Our Lady of Kibeho became the first and only Vatican-approved Marian (related to the Virgin Mary) site in all of Africa. But the story still remained largely unknown. Now, however, Immaculée Ilibagiza has changed all that. She has made many pilgrimages to Kibeho, both before and after the holocaust, has personally witnessed true miracles, and has spoken with a number of the visionaries themselves. What she has discovered will deeply touch your heart!
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Immaculee Ilibagiza | | Paperback: | 240 pages | | Publisher: | Hay House | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1401927432 | | Product Length: | 8.3 inches | | Product Width: | 5.4 inches | | Product Height: | 0.7 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.65 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: | based on 66 reviews |
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83 of 83 found the following review helpful:
An Incredible Book! Nov 30, 2008
By annie
"grannieannie"
Our Lady of Kibeho is a well-written account of the visionaries of Kibeho and their apparitions. This book relates the stories of eight visionaries who the Blessed Mother and/or Jesus appeared to. Our Lady of Kibeho is the first and only Vatican-approved Marian site in all of Africa. To date the Church has authenticated the visions of three of these eight visionaries, Alphonsine, Anathalie, and Marie-Claire. While thousands of people witnessed the apparitions of the other five, at this time the Church has not investigated these.
Most of the apparitions were beautiful and peaceful. They describe the Blessed Mother as bathed in soft light, wearing a dress that must have been made by angels. Her skin shines like polished ivory, but it isn't white or black. There simply are not words to describe her beauty. There were other apparitions, however, of rivers of blood, destruction, torture and tree exploding into flames. The Blessed Mother was warning the people of the horror that awaited Rwanda.
Three of the visionaries experienced mystical journeys through time and space in which they were given glimpses of heaven and hell. These accounts are very special to read.
Included in this book are prayers and instructions for saying the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows, which the Blessed Mother taught to Marie-Claire and asked her to reintroduce to the world.
If you have read Immaculee Ilibagiza's other books, you won't want to miss this one. I highly recommend this book to all Catholics, especially those devoted to Mary.
34 of 34 found the following review helpful:
Wow! Dec 17, 2008
By Timothy J. Van Damm Our Lady of Kibeho is a fantastic book! Immaculee Ilibagiza tells the story of the only Vatican approved apparitions on the continent of Africa. The style of this book is very similar to Immaculee's first two books, Left to Tell and Led by Faith. She give a very personal account of how the apparitions in Kibeho shaped her faith.
Immaculee draws on personal interviews with some of the surviving visionaries and members of the medical and theological Vatican commisions. She also tells her own personal witness from her times assisting during the apparitions.
I've read a number of books on apparitions but none as personal and inspiring as Our Lady of Kibeho. I highly recommend this to Catholics, Christians, and anyone who is open minded enough to say, "If Mary and/or Jesus is truly appearing on this earth, what are they saying. Why is it relevant to me?"
35 of 36 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Book Jan 06, 2009
By M. English I purchased three copies of this book and my family took them all from me at Christmas and are asking for more copies. This book brought me closer to our Mother Mary. I read a lot of religious books and found this one to open my heart and speek to me in my need to pray and live a more devout life. It brought faith closer to home. I LOVE this book and would recommend it highly. It is an easy read.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Where Immaculee Received her Strength Mar 04, 2009
By Leticia Velasquez Anyone of the millions of readers of Immaculee Ilibagiza's New York Times bestselling book, "Left to Tell" in which she relates the terrifying ordeal she endured, hiding in a tiny bathroom with 7 women, while the Rwandan genocide raged outside, is left with a burning question; where did she find the strength to endure those 90 days of torment? Her latest book, Our Lady of Kibeho is Immaculee's answer to that question, as well as a personal account of the only Church-approved Marian apparition in Africa.
No one who knew Immaculee as little girl would have predicted her role in the genocide and its aftermath: Immaculee had an idyllic Catholic childhood. Raised in a picturesque village in the mountains of Rwanda, her devout parents, Rose and Leonard were teachers, and were widely respected. Immaculee's earliest memory is of being rocked in her mother's arms as she prayed the rosary. The young Immaculee lived a holy life of prayer, study and innocent play until at age 11, when she was confronted by a crisis of faith. Not wanting to burden her loving family with her questions, Immaculee suffered silently until the day her doubts were put to rest forever, when her teacher told her the story of Our Lady of Fatima. The story of three shepherd children from Portugal visited by the Queen of Heaven captivated Immaculee's imagination, and she convinced her friend Jeanette and her brother Fabrice to climb a local hilltop each day to tend their goats, where they prayed fervently for Our Lady to appear to them. Eventually the children grew discouraged and gave up their efforts, and were thrilled to hear, not a week later that Our Lady did appear to a young woman in Rwanda, in a convent school in a remote town named Kibeho. The story of the apparitions of Our Lady at Kibeho has familiar elements to Catholics familiar with the stories of Lourdes and Fatima; simple children who receive the message, and are mocked at first by skeptical friends and authorities. Our Lady asks for increased prayer, conversion of hearts, and for a chapel to be built. But no other apparition gives such vivid detail of future tragedies to occur if the people do not repent. The prayerfully singing, rapturous crowd was abruptly silenced as the visionaries shrieked in horror at the visions of thousands of bodies hacked to death and rivers flowing with human blood revealed to them by a tearful Mother. All this is powerfully related to Immaculee by the tape recorder of her pastor, Fr. Rwagema. The lives of Rwandans were deeply affected by the apparitions, with thousands of pilgrims, including Immaculee's father Leonard, traveling for weeks on foot, sleeping outdoors with little food or water in order to pray, sing and learn from Alphonsine, Anathalie, Marie-Clare, and the other visionaries. A chapel of Our Lady was built and thousands learned to pray a special rosary commemorating the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. Immaculee describes how, although she was not able to travel to Kibeho until after the genocide, the visit of Our Lady steeled her for what lay ahead, "Mary knew who her son was, and from his earliest days was aware of the pain that awaited him(and her). Yet through all those years, she supported him with the love of a mother, standing by him while he was whipped, beaten and crucified And she was there for him when he drew his last breath. I realized that Our Lady, whose soft and gentle voice enthralled the visionaries, has rock-solid strength. It was the rock upon which I would build my faith in God, the strength that would sustain me through whatever sorrows life held in store for me." P 97
Immaculee didn't realize until days before the genocide destroyed her village and wiped out most of her family that she and her people were being prepared for unimaginable suffering. In this she joins the exalted company of the saints, who though close friends of Our Lord, suffered the darkness of man's inhumanity to man and entered into the Passion of Christ.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Mary's simple Love Dec 30, 2008
By T. Zink I picked this up from the library and read it in one night and want to share it with others. It's message is simple: Mary Loves us personally and wants to bring us to her Son. We can draw closer through reconciliation and prayer - especially the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows. In a society in which people are frequently isolated, it is refreshing to read of African family customs, prayer and communal pilgrimages. It is marvelous to hear that thousands dropped everything and turned out to hear a visionary. Hopefully the developed nations can learn the importance of family and faith from its 'undeveloped' neighbors. This Vatican approved apparition deserves wider attention.
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