Three Xaverian missionaries martyred alongside a local priest in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1964 were recently beatified during a Mass presided over by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo.
The local priest martyred was Father Albert Joubert of the Diocese of Uvira. The three other missionaries came from Italy: Fathers Luigi Carrara and Giovanni Didonè, who were Xaverian priests, and Brother Vittorio Faccin, a professed member of the same order.
“Their blood has since become a seed for the profound evangelisation of the Diocese of Uvira, the entire DRC and the whole Church,” Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo said in his homily during the Mass that took place at St. Paul Cathedral in Uvira, located to the east of the country.
