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REGISTER BY WEDNESDAY!Prayer works miracles! The life of Immaculée Ilibagiza is a testimony to that.
During the Church’s Year of Hope for 2025, Ilbagiza is a beautiful example of how faith, prayer, and hope can pull you through – to put it bluntly – a living hell.
Saint James the Greater in Charles Town invites you and your friends to MEET HER AND BE INSPIRED BY HER STORY at the Immaculée Ilibagiza Retreat, July 25-26 at the parish, 49 Crosswinds Drive.Immaculée Ilibagiza was born and raised Catholic along with her three brothers in a rural village in Rwanda, Africa. She was a bright child and was studying to be an engineer in college.
In April of 1994, home for Easter break, what would be the worst civil war in her country began to rage. Her survival is one thing, but what bloomed into a devotion to the Blessed Mother and the Rosary is her other awe-inspiring story.
To survive she and seven other women were hidden by the local pastor in a 3-foot by 4-foot bathroom for 91 days. Not knowing their fate sorrow set in, then anger, and then a turning point – prayer and the Rosary. When it was safe to come out of hiding, and weighing less than 70 pounds she learned her entire family except for one brother were dead. More than 1 million men, women, and children brutally murdered.
At the two-day retreat in Charles Town Immaculée Ilibagiza will also share her love and knowledge of apparitions around the globe including Our Lady of Kibeho in her home country.No one will leave this retreat the same as when they came.
Tickets are $57 per person (group rates are as low as $35 per person).
For general information and to register go to: https://www.immaculee.com/products/charles-town-wv-retreat-july-26-27-2025-with-immaculeeFor information from St. James the Greater and overnight accommodation recommendations Ana Bone at [email protected] or call the parish: (304) 725-5558.
