Bernard Mizeki was an African Christian missionary

Mission (Christian)

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 and martyr

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. He was born Mamiyeri Mitseka Gwambe in Inhambane

Inhambane

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, Portuguese East Africa

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 (Mozambique

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), but moved to Cape Town

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, Cape Colony

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 (South Africa

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), when he was about twelve years old.

Through the work of the Cowley Fathers' mission, and particularly the German missionary Baroness Paula Dorothea von Blomberg he became a Christian and was one of the first to be baptized in St Philip's Mission, Sir Lowry Road, on 7 March 1886.