Blessed Jildo Irwa
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- Memorial
- 18 October
- Profile
- Convert at about age eleven.
Catechist with Blessed Daudi Okelo.
Local chiefs demanded that the two of them stop teaching the Gospel; they refused.
Martyr.
- Born
- c.1905 in Ugandan, Acholi tribe
- Died
- speared and knifed to death in 1918 in Palamuku, Uganda;
the place of their death has been called Wi-Polo (In Heaven)
- Beatified
- 20 October 2002 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- pending
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