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Spiritual Traditions

Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz)

c. 1684 – 1706

Central Africa (Kingdom of Kongo, present-day Angola/DR Congo)

A Kongolese prophet who said Saint Anthony possessed her and led the Antonian movement to restore the divided Kingdom of Kongo, teaching an African Christianity. She was burned as a heretic in 1706.

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Kongo brass crucifix, 16th-17th century, an example of Kongo Christian art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999.295.8), Open Access. License: Public domain (CC0).

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Sources

  1. John K. Thornton, "The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706" (Introduction), Cambridge University Press, 1998 (Scholarly)
  2. Dictionary of African Christian Biography, "Kimpa Vita" (from Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, 1979) (Reference)

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