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Name: EUGENIA (Sister)
Nee: Marianna Cavallo
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1892 Spinetta, Cuneo, Italy
Death Date: 28 Sep 1953 murdered by Mau Mau at Imenti Mission, Mujwa, Meru
Profession: Catholic Consolata Mission sister
Area: Meru
Book Reference: Ione
General Information:
Gerrison Kaburu Ndubai, The Ameru in the Mau Mau (Nairobi Univ. MA): "Sister Eugenia (a white Nun) of the Consolata Mission at Muujwa near Nkubu Town, in Meru County, was murdered and her both hands chopped off. It is thought that she was murdered because she possibly recognized and knew the members of the Mau Mau group that attacked the Mission on the night of St. Michael’s Eve (28.9.1953). She was buried at the Consolata Mission Mathari, near Nyeri Town. Two other Catholic nuns, Sisters Rosetta Njeri and Cecilia Wangeci, were both similarly killed by Mau Mau at Baricho Mission, in Kirinyaga, at the same time."