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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, May 26, 2020. It is also the feast day of St. Philip Neri.

Now, St. Philip Neri was a priest, and he loved to laugh. He knew oftentimes that poking fun at himself and even being the butt of jokes could be a great path toward humility. He was a great lover of Jesus Christ and his heart

literally swelled with love for the world. So pray through the intercession of St. Philip

Neri and perhaps think about telling some jokes in his honor today. So this week on the Catholic

Sprouds podcast, we are talking about our lady of Cabejo, who appeared to visionaries in Rwanda,

Africa, in the 1980s, not that long ago.

Now, before we talk about the apparitions, I want to tell you about Cabejo.

Now, Cabejo is the name of the town where she appeared.

But if you're picturing a town like the town you live in, you're not quite understanding what Cabejo was. So Cabejo was not much of

anything. In fact, rural Rwanda is much more real than you can probably imagine. Now, the city or the

town of Cabejo had only a narrow dirt path riding up to it. That's it. You could barely get a car into the town. Most people that were there didn't have cars. They walked. There were goats wandering around. Really, Cabejo was simply a school where girls boarded and went to school and a couple of shops and a couple of houses with a few huts.

And that's it. It really wasn't connected to any sort of big city. Also, Rwanda in the 1980s was pretty unadvanced.

People were lucky if they had a radio. They certainly did not

have a television. And in the 1980s everywhere, nobody had computers. And certainly nowhere did

they have telephones in Cabejo. It was pretty isolated. In fact, the major thing in Cabejo was a boarding school for girls. It was a

Catholic boarding school run by religious sisters. And girls went there when they were about

high school age. They left their homes and they went to live at the school and only returned home

for holidays. Now, the first apparition appeared to a girl named Elphonzin.

Now, she was a quiet girl, but she came from an incredibly rural part of Rwanda, like super rural.

Like, we're talking no path leading up to the town at all. Everyone lived in huts,

very rural. And this part of Rwanda hadn't really been reached by the message of Christ.

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