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Kimpa Vita
Kimpa Vita's statue in Angola
Full name
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita Nsimba
Known for
Founder of Antonianism
Born
1684, Angola
Died
July 2, 1706(1706-07-02) (aged 21–22), Angola
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita, also known as Kimpa Mvita, Tsimpa Vita or Tchimpa Vita (1684 – 2 July 1706), was a Kongolese prophet and leader of her own Christian movement, Antonianism; this movement taught that Jesus and other early Christian figures were from the Kongo Kingdom.
The name "Dona" indicates that she was born into a family of high Kongolese nobility; she was later given the name "Beatriz" after the Catholic saint. Her teaching grew out of the traditions of the Catholic Church in Kongo, and caused her to upbraid the Catholic priests for not believing as she did.
Dona Beatriz believed the teachings of St. Anthony and used this claim to attempt to restore the ideal of Kongo as a unified Christian kingdom. Kimpa Vita is seen as an antislavery figure and as anticipating African democracy movements. While the role of Kimpa Vita is widely overlooked, the years of her movement are some of the best documented in Kongo's history.
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of the Pope. Its founder was a young charismatic woman named Beatriz KimpaVita, who said she was possessed by Saint Anthony of Padua. Beatriz became...
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(1673–1708) Louis de Montfort (1673–1716) Jean Pierre de Caussade (1675–1751); KimpaVita (1684–1706), also known as Dona Beatriz John Heylyn (1685–1759) William...
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and venerable (b. 1640) July 2 – Beatriz KimpaVita, Congolese prophet (b. 1684) July 9 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French...
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Thornton, John K. (1998). The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz KimpaVita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University. p. 69. Fage...
1641–1718, 1983. John K. Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz KimpaVita and the Antonian Movement, 1683–1706 Cambridge University Press, 1998...
Thornton, John (1998-05-13). The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz KimpaVita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University Press. p. 38...
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crisis, a new spirit of religious fervor arose in the preaching of Beatriz KimpaVita, who claimed to be possessed by Saint Anthony of Padua in 1704. Beatriz...
Kingdom". Thornton, John K: "The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz KimpaVita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706", page 23. Cambridge University,...
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