ST. MBAAGA TUZINDE

He was a Muganda, born in about 1869 at Ruyonga, in Busiro County, he was also known as the son of Mukaajanga, the chief executioner because of the blood pact between their grandparents who were very close friends.

He served Kabaka Mwanga II in the great audience hall in charge of the food for the visitors. His other duty was to carry the royal stands in the canoe of the Kabaka. 

His nickname “MBAAGA” which mean “AM I THE BUTCHER” was given to him at the palace where the dependents of the king one day asked for meat they expected in their meals and he ask them whether he was a butcher.

When persecution broke out he was baptized by Charles Lwanga and in an attempt to save his life, Mukaajanga sent him to his relatives to convince him to renounce his faith but in vain. At the last moments on the 3rd of June of 1886, when the Mukaajanga tried for the last time and failed, the boy was hit on the back of the head and his lifeless body thrown in the fire at Namugongo at the age of about seventeen.

ST. MBAGA TUZINDE IS A PATRON OF VOCATIONS MAINLY OF THE SEMINARIANS, ASPIRANTS, POSTULANTS AND NOVICES.