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The Travails of Father Pedro Stefanini of the Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Kamae
A short story by FMCP
In the lush, rolling green hills and valleys of Kamae, the story of Father Pedro Stefanini is told in low, conspiratorial whispers.
It is a story that is never told at home, lest the low voices reach the ears of children. Shepherds speak of it as they watch their Merino sheep graze, and women only mention his name when in their small farms weeding their cabbages and carrots.
To date, four years after he left in the middle of the night, the Father still divides the people of Kamae. Some say that he was a good Godly man, while others heatedly contend that he was the worst thing to happen to Kamae since the brutal Independence War nearly 70 years ago.
Some villagers strike a middle ground, arguing that the Father was a good man gone bad, punished by the spirits, ngomi, of the dead Mau Mau fighters killed by the British during the war. Perhaps, it is said, that the ngomi had confused the white Father with the savage soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers who had been sent to hunt them down, leaving them to rot where they fell in the forest.
It was not always that way.
When he first set foot in Kamae, Father Stefanini...................
A short story by FMCP
In the lush, rolling green hills and valleys of Kamae, the story of Father Pedro Stefanini is told in low, conspiratorial whispers.
It is a story that is never told at home, lest the low voices reach the ears of children. Shepherds speak of it as they watch their Merino sheep graze, and women only mention his name when in their small farms weeding their cabbages and carrots.
To date, four years after he left in the middle of the night, the Father still divides the people of Kamae. Some say that he was a good Godly man, while others heatedly contend that he was the worst thing to happen to Kamae since the brutal Independence War nearly 70 years ago.
Some villagers strike a middle ground, arguing that the Father was a good man gone bad, punished by the spirits, ngomi, of the dead Mau Mau fighters killed by the British during the war. Perhaps, it is said, that the ngomi had confused the white Father with the savage soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers who had been sent to hunt them down, leaving them to rot where they fell in the forest.
It was not always that way.
When he first set foot in Kamae, Father Stefanini...................
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