Treating his Christian subjects with great cruelty, Mwanga murdered the Anglican Bishop Harrington and turned against young men who stayed in the king’s court - locally called pages.
The 45 Ugandan Christians who were executed had embraced their fate.
The seeds of UgandaMartyrs’ Day can be said to have unknowingly planted in 1875 when the British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley arrived in the royal
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