Our Lady of Kibeho

Beginning on November 28, 1981, three students at Kibeho College — Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and Marie Claire Mukangango — reported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The visionaries experienced ecstasies lasting up to eight hours, during which they were subjected to medical tests confirming they were not responsive to pain stimuli. On August 19, 1982, the Virgin showed the three girls horrifying visions of 'a river of blood, people killing each other, abandoned corpses with no one to bury them, a tree all in flames, bodies without their heads.' These visions were fulfilled with devastating accuracy during the 1994 genocide, in which approximately 800,000 people were killed in 100 days. Marie Claire Mukangango herself was killed during the genocide. Bishop Augustin Misago approved the apparitions in 2001.