Saint Joseph Mukasa
Ugandan saint
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Saint Joseph Mukasa was a Ugandan Catholic martyr executed in 1885 during the persecution of Christians under Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda. He was a prominent figure in the royal household and a Catholic. Mukasa reproached Mwanga for the massacre of Anglican missionaries, which led to his own beheading on November 15, 1885. He is one of the 45 Anglican and Roman Catholic martyrs collectively known as the Martyrs of Uganda, whose feast day is June 3. The 22 Roman Catholic martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964.1
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