Don Beatriz Kimpa Vit Kongolesed By St. Anthony

Don Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a Kongolese woman who claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony and argued that Jesus and other figures were also Kongolese.1 She was born around 1684 in Sangololo and was the daughter of a noble family that was from around Mount Kibangu. Kimpa Vita was baptized into the Christian faith as did many people did during that time. She criticized the Italian Capuchin missionaries because they did not support black saints.1 Kimpa Vita was affected by the political turmoil and the violence and the instability that came with it in the form of civil wars and the supplying of her people to the Atlantic slave trade.1 After an illness in 1704 Kimpa Vita claimed to have died and allowed St. Anthony to enter her body. After this