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Catholics flock to shrine for Virgin Mary vision
TABU BUTAGIRA
Sunday Monitor , February 25 - March 3, 2007
http://www.monitor.co.ug/sunday/news/news02253.php
NYAPEA, NEBBI
“The Virgin Mary is there, that one in a sparkling white cloak holding her hands together,” 9-year-old Bella Priscilla Pirwoth called out as she pointed to the top of a pine tree near Nyapea Catholic Chapel.
BLESS US: Believers recite the rosary on Thursday in front of Nyapea Catholic Chapel in Nebbi during a mass celebrating reported sightings of an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
A flock of children joined her chorus as bewildered adults perched on the apron of the church building craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the apparition. Such scenes have been common since early January at the chapel known locally as Awedoke and sandwiched between the residence of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate and the quarters of the five diocesan priests.
The late Bishop Negri and his fellow Italian Verona Fathers founded the chapel in 1933, and Catholics in the region will celebrate its diamond jubilee next January.
But a year before the celebrations, the phenomenon has become a major attraction, pulling thousands of people from across Uganda as well as neighbouring southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Father Emile Onegwa, an elderly priest, says the vision of the Virgin first appeared to him inside the chapel on July 21, 2005, then again on February 4 last year. This year, he said, the vision has appeared around January 9 on a pine tree a short distance from the old building where the maiden batch of aspirants, or candidates to be nuns at Mary Immaculate, professed decades ago.
A nun joins other faithful in prayers at the chapel. Photo by Tabu Butagira
The rattle of arriving vehicles, the blare of prayer calls and the sounds of joyous worship fill the air in this previously hushed and forested neighbourhood about 10 kilometres northwest of sprawling Paidha town.
The chapel itself is only a few kilometres from the DRC Justine Ringtho, chairman of the six-member local Apparition Committee, said only about 2,000 of an estimated 900,000 believers who had flocked to Nyapea by February 22 had actually seen the apparition. He did not explain how he knew this but said he was among those who had seen it.
“She appeared in white and blue gown with a crown on her head surrounded by bright shining stars,” he said. During an outdoor mass Thursday in front of the chapel, Fr. Onegwa told the crowd of hundreds that now was the right time for them to look deeply into themselves.
“The Virgin Mary has come to grant us salvation. Let us pray hard so that she helps us to overcome all difficulties and we start our journey to heaven peacefully,” he said. The crowd remained quiet, then burst into deafening ululation and clapping.
Lent, the Christian period of introspection and repentance that precedes Easter began last Wednesday. Bella Pirwoth riveted the crowd with her testimony, then drew laughter when she gently teased her tearful mother Rose Mary Pakech for failing to see the apparition for the second day after travelling from Arua and offering constant prayers and reciting the rosary.
“Since Mum, you have failed to see the apparition, don’t blame yourself. Just keep heart and thank the good Lord for keeping you alive,” Ms Pirwoth, a pupil at Awindiri Primary School, said.
Paul Bedijo, a teacher of French at St. Aloysius College Nyapea, refuses to give up the struggle after three unsuccessful attempts to see the apparition. “I am a staunch Catholic and believe that Mary the Mother of Jesus has a role to play in our lives,” he said as he jostled with children to catch a glimpse.
`“If She has appeared somewhere, I want to see Her for it will be a clear confirmation and evidence of what I believe in.’’ The selective manifestation of the apparition is already causing emotional and social ripples in the local community amid wide-ranging inferences that it only appears to the faithful. There is a growing belief that since children are largely faultless, they are able to see it.
Desperate believers, mainly women, have turned to praying in front of statues of Virgin Mary installed inside the chapel, and others are keeping vigil on the chapel grounds.
At least 10 of the 300 some people gathered at the Nyapea Chapel Thursday professed to having seen the apparition.
But the bishop of Nebbi Diocese, Rt. Rev. Martin Luluga, has repeatedly declined to comment on the perceived miraculous happenings, explaining that such matters are “very complicated, and I have also not seen it yet”.
Stephen Ocopcan, who is compiling a list of the progressive events of the apparition, said some of those individuals who have failed to see it are so distressed they are claiming to have seen the divine sight for self-fulfilment.
“I know it (apparition) is a miracle that happens to different people at different time and for different purposes. People are not seeing it because they are unhappy, ever longing for material possession without much time to renew their faith,” said Ocopcan, who claimed to have seen it. “Apparition requires and brings change in people’s lives. It is not a fashion.’’
The influx of those hoping to see the apparition has imposed additional demands on church administrators who have increased the number of weekday masses from one to three. As a result, offertory collections at the chapel have shot up from Shs15,000 to Shs 50,000 a day.
And some local businesses are booming. The demand for rosaries has grown tremendously. Stanley Gobson Omung, the chief supplier, said since last month he has sold 680 sparkling rosaries at Shs500 each, earning Shs340, 000.
Makeshift markets have sprouted up around the chapel where vendors sell all kinds of food including anyoya mix (boiled maize/beans), cassava, bananas, avocados and sugar cane.
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