Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Consolata of Nairobi
En el barrio de Westlands, en Nairobi, el Consolata Shrine es santuario y parroquia de la arquidiócesis, confiado a los Misioneros de la Consolata. Lleva el título con que Turín venera a la Madre de Dios desde antiguo: la Consolata, ‘la que consuela’, y es uno de los templos marianos más queridos y conocidos de la capital keniana.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The Missionaries of the Consolata were founded in Turin on January 29, 1901 by St. Joseph Allamano, then rector of the Turkino shrine of the Consolata, and from that mother house they took the name of Mary Consoladora who today appears this sanctuary of Nairobi.
- Kenya was its first mission in the world: they arrived in 1902 and celebrated the first official mass in Tuthu, Kikuyu country, on June 29 of that year. The Consolata thus accompanied the birth of the Church in central Kenya.
- The sanctuary is today a reference point for the city: a living parish of the archdiocese of Nairobi attended by an international community of missionaries, with the chapel of San José in Deep Sea at the service of the most humble.
- In February 2026 its land welcomed the commemoration of the centenary of the transit to the sky of St. Joseph Allamano, its founder, now canonized, bringing together the Missionaries of the Consolata of Kenya and Uganda with a multitude of faithful.
Virgin Consolata
In Westlands, the Shrine of Consolata custody in Nairobi the Marian title of Turin: Mary, who comforts. Regulated by the Missionaries of the Consolata, heirs of St. Joseph Allamano, he joins Kenya's first evangelization with the living devotion of the capital.
"Our Lady of Consolata, comfort of the afflicted, pray for Kenya and its missionaries.
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