A small Christian Community is the Church within the neighbourhood, comprising a manageable group of families,
which help to promote communion and co-responsibility, and gives every member a sense of belonging to the Church.
(Guidelines of SCC in ADN)
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land.
Buruburu Phase 5
Churo, Konokono, Ena
Raphael is an archangel responsible for healing in the traditions of most Abrahamic religions. Not all branches of these religions consider the identification of Raphael to be canonical.
Buruburu Phase 5
Off-Katulo road, Sengoi, Boma west, Katulo, Tongong, Mai Mahiu
Saint Michael the Archangel is referenced in the Old Testament and has been part of Christian teachings since the earliest times. In Catholic writings and traditions he acts as the defender of the Church, and chief opponent of Satan; and assists souls at the hour of death.
Buruburu Phase 5
Rheka, Ngwiri, Kyamanyatu, Sagam, Rev. Symekha, Boma East, Taturi
Gabriel, in the Abrahamic religions, is an archangel. He was first described in the Hebrew Bible and was subsequently developed by other traditions. In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel, to explain his visions.
Buruburu Phase 5
Nziu, Mchwa, Khanga
St. John the Apostle, the son of Zebedee and Salome, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. John was called to be an Apostle by our Lord in the first year of His public ministry. He is considered the same person as John the Evangelist, John of Patmos and the Beloved Disciple.
Buruburu Phase 4
Saint Matiya Mulumba, also known as Matthias Murumba Kalemba, was a Ugandan Roman Catholic, one of the Martyrs of Uganda, who was martyred on or around May 30, 1886 at around the age of 50.
Buruburu Phase 4
Eregero, Bisika, Faida, Thura
Saint Kizito was one of the Martyrs of Uganda. The youngest martyr slain by the King Mwanga II of Buganda. He was baptized on 25/26 May 1886, by Charles Lwanga at Munyonyo, burned alive on 3 June 1886 in Namugongo. He was canonized on 18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI at Rome. His feast day is on June 3.
Buruburu Phase 4
Gakindu/Ijara, Ukunda/Tinganga, Jibisa/Kalute
Charles Lwanga was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church, who was martyred for his faith and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
Buruburu Phase 4
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known as “The Little Flower of Jesus”, or simply “The Little Flower”.
Buruburu Phase 3
Ngomeni, Gichi, Olosalani, Chepanda, Tulima, Akala, Song On, Olenguruon
Jude, also known as Judas Thaddaeus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus.
Buruburu Phase 3
Laset, Maungu, Magunga, Olosalani,Ichamara, Kuja
Our Lady of Fátima, is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the famed Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
Buruburu Phase 3
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family
was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity.
Buruburu Phase 3
Bumbani, Chemoiben, Endau, Bombeya, Buchuma, KCB, Kaginas
Paul the Apostle, commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus, was an apostle who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world.
Buruburu Phase 2
Batian, Bokol, Debesian, Elgon, Elementaita, Kandam, Karimapus, Kamutile
Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth or Elisheba, was the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah, according to the Gospel of Luke.
Buruburu Phase 2
Nyambene, Menengai, Mimindu, Mogilla, Naikara, Nakwakipi, Ngapoi, Ngurumani, Nuriguyo, Maparasha, Harambee
Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians. It is written that as the musicians played at her wedding she “sang in her heart to the Lord”. Her feast day is celebrated in the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and in the Anglican Communion on November 22.
Buruburu Phase 2
Kipsalut, Kibaoni, Kikambuoni, Kiptimin, Lengalilla, Lesatima, Lishode, Lomilio, Lutere
Saint Thomas Aquinas OP was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis.
Buruburu Phase 2(Prudential Estate)
Saint Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest canonized saints. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and they had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis.
All Parishoners living outside out Parish jurisdiction/ other estates
Saint Rita of Cascia was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Rita was a child bride, married before the age of 12.
Buruburu Phase 3
Buruburu Girls, Metrovillas Estate