Prophetess Kimpa Vita. Burnt alive by the Church because she was destabilizing and disturbing the lucrative Slave Trade
Prophetess Kimpa Vita.
Burnt alive by the Church because she was destabilizing and disturbing
the lucrative Slave Trade.
Kimpa- Craftiness
Vita- Guerrilla (war)
Kimpa Vita was born in Kikongo in 1684 to
become the 1st young female Kongo to rebel against foreign spiritual
domination. She is the founder of a religion known as “Antonians” or “Kimpasi”
at the beginning of the 18th century.
Some of her teachings:
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“The
missionaries whiten god for their profit”
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“In the
heavens, on the Eternals’ planet in paradise….there are Blacks, there are
Kongos (Africans)”
Kimpa Vita performed healing just like Jesus,
Simon Kimbangu and others did. She used to fertile sterile wombs with a simple
touch.
During the Antonians’ prayer session, the
gods were invoked with sexual gestures and relations.
She taught women to be fearless and to
neither fear tomorrow from the day after tomorrow.
She started her preaching and teachings in
1702, when she was just 18 years old.
Her strong foothold made the missionaries and
slaveowners very unhappy because it was destabilizing and disturbing the
lucrative Slave Trade.
In 1704 (when she was 20 years old), the Catholic
Church accused her of witchcraft. She was arrested by the missionaries but soon
released under pressure from the people.
In 1706 (when she was 22 years old), she bore
a child with one of her two men. The Catholic Church orchestrated a smear
campaign against her, falsely claiming that she is a false saint and that she
was an envoy of the devil. As a result, she was re-arrested.
The Catholic Church finally pronounced ‘Death
by fire’ as the sentence.
Kimpa Vita was arrested on orders of the
Italian missionaries (at the service of the Vatican) led by Lorenzo
da Luca and Bernado do Gallo. These two Italian missionaries not just
executed Kimpa Vita but also violently stole from Kongo with Portuguese
soldiers at their service to capture the Kongos and force them to Christianity
Catholic baptism.
While being burnt alive, Kimpa Vita repeated
that the heavens would send another prophet to be born to stop slavery and save
the Black man.
It is easy to understand why Western
history books and do not mention her!
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