Immaculee Ilibagiza - The Boy Who Met Jesus: Segatashya Emmanuel of Kibeho

Also by Immacule Ilibagiza, with Steve Erwin

LED BY FAITH: Rising from the Ashes
of the Rwandan Genocide
(also available as a 4-CD abridged audio book)

LEFT TO TELL: Discovering God Amidst
the Rwandan Holocaust
(also available in Spanish and as
a 4-CD abridged audio book)

OUR LADY OF KIBEHO: Mary Speaks to the World
from the Heart of Africa

(also available in Spanish)

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Copyright 2011 by Immacule Ilibagiza

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Cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou Interior design: Tricia Breidenthal Interior photos: Courtesy of the author

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ilibagiza, Immacule.

The boy who met Jesus : Segatashya of Kibeho / Immacule Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin. 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4019-3581-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Segatashya, 1967-2. Jesus ChristApparitions and miraclesRwandaKibeho. 3. Kibeho (Rwanda)Religious life and customs. I. Erwin, Steve II. Title.

BT580.K53I45 2011

231.73dc23

2011032851

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-3581-8
Digital ISBN: 978-1-4019-3583-2

14 13 12 11 4 3 2 1
1st edition, November 2011

Printed in the United States of America

For Segatashya,

A friend, a true visionary, and a messenger of God. I pray that one day your apparitions will be officially recognized by the Church, and that all the messages Jesus entrusted you with will be heard and heeded by the entire world.

CONTENTS

If anyone knows that I ever set foot on earth,
let them also know I am on my way back.

JESUS TO SEGATASHYA

THE VOICE IN
THE DARKNESS

At first I could see nothing at all; I was aware only of being alone in darkness so complete I thought it would suffocate me. Then, like a lifeline reaching from somewhere beyond the deep blackness of the night, a familiar voice found my earsa comforting voice, of someone I had loved and trusted from my childhood. It was the voice of Segatashya, who, in my African homeland of Rwanda, is known as the boy who met Jesus.

Segatashyas gentle voice drifted to me across the lightless abyss, as if floating upon a calm breeze. The voice, indecipherable at first, slowly formed into words, softly whispering, Heaven is waiting for us all when our time comes to leave this world, but only if our hearts are clean and pure.

Suddenly I realized that I must be asleep and in the midst of a dream, because Segatashya had been murdered many years before, one of more than a million innocent victims slaughtered during Rwandas horrific 1994 genocide. It was nowat least it was when I lay down to sleep that nightmid-November of 2010 so I knew I must be dreaming. But I also knew that if this was a dream, it was unlike any Id had before. What I was feeling was as vivid, real, and lifelike as anything Id experienced during my waking hours.

The voice reached me again: Jesus says that we must prepare our hearts for the end of days. We will all die one daywe must not live our lives as though we are unaware that our time on this Earth will come to an end. The world itself will end, and that day is fast approaching. We must repent for all our sins before it is too late. We must ask to be forgiven for our trespasses and find it in our hearts to forgive those who have trespassed against us. We must purify our hearts with Gods love and cleanse our spirits by living a life filled with love and charity. We must prepare our souls for Judgment Day. Christs return is near, and the gates of heaven will open to us only if the Lord judges us to be worthy of entering his kingdom.

The words grew increasingly familiar to me, and I realized that I not only recognized the voice, but I also recognized the specific message. I had heard Segatashya recite the exact same cautionary phrases when I was a young girl.

In my dream, I was gliding above the ground as my heart pulled me toward the voice, which led me out of the darkness and into a golden circle of light. Several dozen people were gathered in the center of the pool of light, all listening intently to a teenage boy who was addressing them with passionate urgency. The young man sat on a long wooden bench, with his audience crowding around him. His back was turned toward me so I was unable to see his face, but I was certain it was Segatashya.

I first heard him speak when I was 12 years old, and nothing in the world will ever erase from my memory the rich character of his voice or the miraculous content of his messages. In fact, Im certain beyond a doubt that anyone who ever heard Segatashya speak feels the same wayfor once his loving words have touched your heart, they are part of it forever.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE UNFAMILIAR with my most recent book, Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa, I should explain that Segatashya was one of a group of young visionaries who had apparitions of the Virgin Maryand in Segatashyas case, of Jesus Christin the remote Rwandan village of Kibeho during the 1980s.