The four Missionaries of Charity sisters murdered in Yemen last month were models for all Christians, the Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi has said.
Speaking in the Kenyan capital’s Holy Family Basilica at a requiem mass for the souls of India’s Sr Mary Anselm, Rwanda’s Sr Mary Marguerite and Sr Mary Reginette, and Kenya’s Sr Mary Judith, Dr David Kamau said the quartet had “died in the course of duty, of defending the faith and living their baptism”.
He noted that God has always used ordinary people to defeat and shame the strong, describing the sisters as “just ordinary individuals who went through the baptism of Jesus” whose actions were “an example to follow not just as missionaries but even as Christians”.
The sisters were among 16 persons killed when terrorists attacked a Missionaries of Charity-run home for the aged in Aden, Yemen on March 4; the whereabouts of a priest kidnapped from the home, Fr Tom Uzhunnali, is still unknown.