Forty-Five Names and Two Churches' Shared Feast

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Forty five named converts, twenty two Catholic and twenty three Anglican, were executed across the two years of killing at Mwanga's court, the figure both a modern narrative history of the persecution and the standard reference literature record; the twenty two formally beatified and canonized by the Catholic Church are the best documented rather than the only converts killed for their faith in the same period, but no source identifies further named victims beyond the forty five. This atlas records that agreed, well documented total rather than an unresolved wider figure some retellings imply.

The Catholic Church beatified its twenty two martyrs in 1920 and canonized them in 1964; the Anglican Communion commemorates its own twenty three on the same 3 June feast day, a rare instance of two communions jointly marking the same historical killing on the same date. The Namugongo site where the largest execution took place is now a shrine visited by pilgrims of both traditions, and no international body has made a genocide or crimes against humanity determination, since the killings predate the modern vocabulary for one by decades; the churches' own canonization and shared commemoration have stood in its place.