St Killian's Mission

Coordinates: 18°36′43″S 32°24′50″E / 18.612°S 32.414°E / -18.612; 32.414
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St Killian's Mission is a Carmelite[1] boarding school near Rusape[2][3] in the Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe. The School, governed by the Roman Catholic Church, is well known in the area for its philosophy of mixing moral education and academic education. The late Father Vernon was the head of the institution for over 25 years.[4]

The school was founded after 1925 when local businessman Michael Jack Nyamusamba, a convert of the Trappist missionaries at Triashill gave "my kraal for a mission station with a European staff. The surrounding hundred acres, which I cultivated for the last ten years for their own use."[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Carmelites in Zimbabwe". www.carmelites.ie. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Nyanga's darkest night & the betrayal of innocent souls". News of the South. 13 June 2017.
  3. ^ David J. Maxwell (1997). "The Spirit and the Scapular: Pentecostaland Catholic Interactions in Northern Nyanga District, Zimbabwe in the 1950s and early 1960s". Journal of Southern African Studies. 23 (2). The Sect from the Black North Meets the Mother of Drunken Harlots:The Global Export of a Local Struggle.
  4. ^ Terence Ranger (1983). "Holy Men and Rural Communities in Zimbabwe, 1970–1980". Studies in Church History. 20 (The Church and War): 443–461. doi:10.1017/S0424208400007439.
  5. ^ Ranger, Terence O., "Mau Mau, FRELIMO and the guerrilla war: rural class struggle" (PDF), Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe: a comparative study

18°36′43″S 32°24′50″E / 18.612°S 32.414°E / -18.612; 32.414