It all started at 12.35 pm, 28th November 1981. While serving her tablemates during lunch, 16-year old Alphonsine Mumureke received the very first apparition. ‘Mwana’, was the word she heard from a voice whose source she could not immediately determine. She was to remain the sole one receiving private and public apparitions for 8 years until 28th November 1989. Alphonsine is today Rev. Sister Dr Alphonsine Mumureke, of the Glorious Cross Congregation, in Ivory Coast, and late
