Servants of God Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba | |
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.jpg) Photograph taken in 1992 in the garden of their home in Kigali (Rwanda). | |
| Born | Cyprien Rugamba ca. 1935 Daphrose Mukansanga ca. 1944 Cyanika, Nyamagabe, Rwanda |
| Died | 7 April 1994 Kigali, Rwanda |
Cyprien (ca. 1935–1994) and Daphrose Rugamba (ca. 1944–1994) were a married couple from Rwanda, who introduced the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Emmanuel Community to their country in 1990. Cyprien Rugamba was a member of the Hutu ethnic group. He was considered by many to be a Rwandan who created art for all people due to the general impression that his works, which included actors from all ethnic groups, embodied a concentrated focus on writing about Rwandan history and culture, regardless of ethnicity. His wife Daphrose was an ethnic Tutsi. They were both assassinated in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The cause for their canonization in the Catholic Church was opened in 2015.[1]
- ^ Lesegretain, Claire (2015). "L'Église se penche sur la sainteté d'un couple rwandais". La Croix.