ST. GYAVIIRA MAYANJA MUSOKE PROFILE – UGANDA MARTYRS

SAINT GYAVIIRA MAYANJA MUSOKE

Gyaviira was a messenger. He was quick, accurate and trustworthy and he had hated backbiting. His father was a famous priest of the traditional god, Mayanja. He gave this name to his son, whom he was preparing to take over his office. But when taken to the palace to be a page, he converted to Catholicism and burnt up all witchcraft charms.

He chose the Christian religion, never turning back, to the point of dying for it on June 3, 1886, at the age of seventeen.

Gyaviira is the Patron of traffic, communications and those troubled by witchcraft.