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Simon Kimbangu

1887–1951 · 20th century

Simon Kimbangu was a Kongo religious leader in the Belgian Congo whose preaching and healing in 1921 drew large crowds. Belgian authorities saw his movement as a threat, arrested him and condemned him to death, a sentence commuted to life imprisonment. He died in prison at Élisabethville in 1951, and his followers founded the Kimbanguist Church.

Simon Kimbangu
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Belgian Congo

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