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Name: BENEDETTO, Pietro (Rev. Father)
Birth Date: 12.3.1887 Moiola di Cuneo, Italy
Death Date: 11.3.1978 Nyeri
First Date: 1913
Profession: Consolata missionary
Area: Nyeri
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut
General Information:
Interned in S. Africa in WW2
M. M. Kariuki: The Sacred Mugumo Tree Benedetto, P., La ‘Superstizioni e Templi Ghekoio’ in La Consolata, Anno XVII-N.7, Luglio,1915, pp. 104-108. Apart from the description of Mugumo and its religious role in Gikuyu cosmology, Benedetto also provides a photo of Missionaries, some sitting while the other climbing the Mugumo and the sacred grove as a spectacular antithesis of the old Gikuyu religion. The taboo about desecration of the sacred groves and Mugumo tree has been broken and the new religion has replaced the old one so that any fear o f those sacred places has been finished by the Western missionaries through their religion, p. 107.