Kini Nsom
31 March 2008
The leader of the Yaounde spiritual hospital, Bureau Lumiere, Marie Lumiere, has expressed deep concern about the arrest and detention of youths by the police and the gendarmerie during the February strike action.
"Many of these youths who are being prosecuted and jailed are as innocent as Jesus who suffered and was nailed on the cross for no crime," Marie Lumiere told a large crowd that turned out at the Mbankolo prayer ground recently.
She said as the trial of these youths is still going on in different courts in the country, she was praying God to give the judges wisdom to dispense justice and treat the youths with mercy.
She called on God to forgive all those who destroyed property and killed people during the strike and help them to act in a responsible manner in the wake of any such eventuality.
The thousands of Christians at the prayer ground carried bananas with them as a symbol of the Easter period.
Marie Lumiere blessed the bananas by sprinkling them with Holy Water. All the Christians then peeled the bananas and ate them.Explaining this phenomenon, the spiritual leader said by peeling the bananas, the faithful were symbolically throwing away evil and embracing the will of God as Christ rose from the death.
To her, the period of Lent is a time of self-denial and self-abnegation and a time for Christians to prepare to embrace Christ with a new lease of virtuous and pious life.
Most of those who trooped the prayer ground were sick people who had gone to seek solace from prophetess Marie Lumiere's spiritual deliverance.
According to one Christian faithful, Bernard Erere, prophetess Marie Lumiere has given succour to thousands of sick people in Yaounde and Douala.After the death of the famous Pére Soffo, three years ago, Marie Lumiere is the one leading what is referred to as the Yaounde and Douala spiritual hospitals.
The life of Marie Lumiere as a prophetess remains a mystery to many onlookers. That is why one journalist, Michelle Pela Laure, recently produced a documentary, chronicling the life of the lady as a prophetess.
According to the documentary, Marie's life began in Bandjoun, West Province, over fifty years ago and she acquired spiritual powers after she fell ill mysteriously for many years,
Over a thousand people watched the maiden screening and launching of the documentary in a solemn ceremony at Azur Hotel in Yaounde which was attended by the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Augustin Edjoa.
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