The commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dehonians in DR Congo took place November 25-26.
On November 25, the confreres of the Congolese Province visited the Makiso cemetery, where SCJ missionaries, martyred by the Simba rebels in 1964, are buried. Twenty-eight SCJs were killed during the rebellion. Dehonians are pictured below at the gravesite, praying the rosary.
The following day, November 26, the day of the Dehonian memorial itself, Eucharist was celebrated at the Maison Sacré-Coeur in Kisangani, with the participation of religious from several communities, Dehonian lay people and SCJs.
