| Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa |  | Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
Publisher: Hay House
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 21,412
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.9170967571
ASIN: B001LK8FBE
Publication Date: November 28, 2008
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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. 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. For years, countless onlookers watched as the Mother and Son of God spoke through the eight seers about God’s love, sending messages that they insisted were meant not only for Rwandans, but for the entire world, to hear. 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. After the genocide, and two decades of rigorous investigation, Our Lady of Kibeho became the first and only Vatican-approved Marian (that is, related to the Virgin Mary) site in all of Africa. But the story still remains largely unknown. Now, Immaculée Ilibagiza plans to change all that. She made many pilgrimages to Kibeho both before and after the holocaust, personally witnessed true miracles, and spoke with a number of the visionaries themselves. What she’s discovered will deeply touch your heart.
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An Incredible Book! November 30, 2008
annie (Mid-MI)
54 out of 54 found this review helpful
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.
Wow! December 17, 2008
Timothy J. Van Damm
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
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?"
Excellent Book January 6, 2009
M. English (WI)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
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.
Where Immaculee Received her Strength March 4, 2009
Leticia Velasquez (Shetucket Valley, CT)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Good but We Need Better January 2, 2009
Oblate
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a good basic introduction to the visions and messages of the Virgin Mary at Kibeho, but it does a terrible job of making and keeping a clear distinction between the APPROVED events at Kibeho (to 3 younf female visionaries) and the UNAPPORVED events (to 5 or so other persons out of about 140 instant-visionaries that always seem to spring up as they did ar Lourdes as well).
No matter how much the author may gush over the non-approved phenomenon as she does for pages and pages (but to her credit she does point out thgey are not approved)we must keep in mind that the devil often throws out his own circus-show at the site of genuine apparitions to confuse people and distract us from the real thing. Such happened also at Lourdes (1858) and Beauraing (1932-33).
Do get the book to become acquainted with the facts but lets hope another book will SOON come along that will ne mush more objective, historical and theological in its presentation. The marvelous and awesome apparitions and messages of the Mother of the Word, Our Lady of Sorrows, the Virgin at Kibeho, demand such a book ASAP.
OH and while you are at it, order a Seven Sorrows rosary to go along with the book because once you read Our Lady's request for this rosary and the promises she attaches it it, you will want to go out and get one immediately. The book has an excellent set of directions on how to pray this ancient rosary that is making come-back due to Our Lady of Kibeho.
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