Bernard Mizeki, Apostle of the MaShona
18 June -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Martyrs, page 464
Born in Portuguese East Africa, Bernard Mizeki went to work
in Cape Town and there he was converted to the Christian
faith by the Cowley Fathers. He then gave his life as a
translator and evangelist among the MaShona in what is
present-day Zimbabwe. He was murdered on this day in 1896
in a tribal uprising and is revered throughout Central
Africa as a witness to the gospel of Christ.