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St. Anatole Kiriggwajjo

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Feast Day: June 3
Death: 1886
Beatified: Pope Benedict XV
Canonized: Pope Paul VI

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Martyr of Uganda. Anatole was a royal page in the court of King Mwanga. He refused an honor offered by the king because he saw that accepting it would compromise his Christian faith. He was martyred in 1886 at the age of twenty.

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