I met up with Fr. Polykarp in Uganda. Took a long bus ride to kampala. Uganda has the best Mangos. They have 20 different types of mangos. It is mango season which is great. I went to the Shrine of Ugandan Holy Martyrs. It is a Shrine for all the Christians that were killed in Uganda 129 years ago. The king’s advisors said do not trust these white fathers coming into Uganda. They will bring down the kingdom so the king started killing all the Christians and there were many Ugandan Christians too already. The youngest one was 12 years old. He worked at the kings palace and the king wanted to have sex with him and he refused and the king had him put to death. There are many stories I think about 18 of them that they celebrate here. Well this week is a huge pilgrimage to the Shrine. about 2 million people will show up for the celebration of the martyrs.
The people here are very friendly. Kampala is very crowded. i was here for only a short stay but had a good one. Everyone here also shouts MZUNGU. That is white man. Children like saying “good morning” to me. Nothing starts on time here. And everyone is late as expected. One of the funniest things I saw here was on a small 125cc motorcycle two huge bags of coal and a man sitting on top and the other driving the motorcycle. It looked like out of a cartoon. People are incredible here. The driving is crazy here as well. People must think they are invincible when they are in a car because no rules seems to apply.
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