Denis Ssebuggwawo Wasswa’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Ugandan saint
Is Saint 
From Uganda 
Type Religion 
Gender male
Death 25 May 1886, Munyonyo

St. Denis Ssebuggwawo (Musajja-mukulu) was by tribe a Muganda from Bulemeezi county. His father was Kajansi and mother, Nsonga (Musoga). Ssebuggwawo was from Edible or Cane Rat (Musu) clan – Thryonomys Swinderianus. He was a page of king Muteesa I and a page in personal attendance of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda. Ssebuggwawo was baptized on 16 November 1885 by Père Simon Lourdel M.Afr. (Fr. Mapera). He was tortured and speared by king Mwanga II before handing him over to executioner Mpinga Kaloke on the evening of Tuesday 25 May 1886. On Wednesday morning 26 May 1886, Mpinga ordered his two men; Matembe and Mulyowa to hack the boy of 16 years into pieces. Ssebuggwawo was first beheaded before he was hacked into pieces at Munyonyo. He is remembered as one of the Martyrs of Uganda’s feast day.

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