

Fri 16 Jun
|Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre
Zinafe Bernard Mzeki Family Pilgrimage 2023
One of the highlights of liturgical observance is how as Zinafe we mark the saint day of BERNARD MIZEKI, Catechist, Missionary and Martyr
Time & Location
16 Jun 2023, 15:00 – 18 Jun 2023, 13:00
Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre, Triumph Road , Nottingham NG7 2TU, UK
About the event
Bernard Mizeki
When he was about twelve years old, Bernard Mizeki left his home in Mozambique for Cape Town, South Africa, where he stayed for ten years as a laborer. He worked for white settlers and commuted each day to his home in the slums. He enrolled in an Anglican night school for blacks and refused to drink alcohol, which was what many poor Africans used to assuage their sorrows. With his gift for languages, the young African soon learned English, high Dutch, French, and eight African languages. This led to work for him as a translator of the Bible into indigenous languages.
Soon he became a Christian. Mizeki was prepared for baptism in 1886 by members of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. He then became a lay catechist in Mashonaland, accompanying an English bishop inland to what is now Zimbabwe. Here he built a mission station…
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