MUTAGATIFU PAWULINI WA NOLE, Umwepisikopi

Mutagatifu Pawulini yavukiye mu Bufaransa mu mwaka wa 354. Yigishijwe na Ozini, Wari intarushwa mu kuvuga neza no guhimba ibisigo mu Baromani bose bari bazwi cyane icyo gihe.  Ni cyo cyatumye Pawulini amenya kuvuga neza cyane, kandi Icyo yanditse ugasanga gitekereje neza, gisobanuye ku buryo utabona uko ukijora. Ubupfura bwa Pawulini, ubwenge bwe, amavuko ye n’imari ye, byamufashije mu kwamamara, nyuma aza gutorwa mu bavugizi b’imena bagengaga u Buromani. Aho agiriye imyaka 24, yashakanye n’umuromanikazi w’umukire kandi w’imfura ikomeye, witwaga Tereziya, akaba umukirisitukazi mwiza. Imico ye ni yo yatumye Pawulini agumya gutekereza ubukirisitu, bituma yemera ubwe, arabatizwa, abifashijwemo kandi na mutagatifu Martini w’i Turu.

 Amaze gupfusha umwana we witwaga Selisiyusi, atangira kumva uburyo umukiro w’isi ari ubusa. Nuko yumvikana n’umugore we Tereziya babana bubikira. Ni ukubuga kubana nk’umuhungu na mushiki we. Imari yabo bayiha abakene n’izindi mbabare z’isi. Basigarana gusa ibintu bya ngombwa byo kubatunga. Iyo mico mitagatifu yabo yatumye abapagani benshi bari inshuti zabo babanga, barabata. Ariko Pawulini ntiyasigaye yigunze, yahisemo kubana cyane n’abatagatifu Ambrozi, Agusitini, Yeronimo, na mutagatifu Gerigori wa I, papa, hamwe n’abandi bakirisitu bakomeye b’icyo gihe. Pawulini yahawe ubusaseridoti mu mwaka wa 393, nuko amaze kubuhabwa ajya kuba i Nole mu Butaliyani. Mu mwaka wa 409 ni ho abakirisitu baho bamutoyeho umwepisikopi, na we yegukira koko kubafasha mu mubano wabo n’Imana.

 Mu myaka ye y’ubwepisikopi, rimwe haza umukirisitukazi washavuye cyane, amubwira ko abanyamahanga bo muri Afurika bamutwariye umwana, ati: “none reba icyo wamfashisha ngo njye kumucungura.” Pawulini aramusubiza ati: “Nta bintu ngifite, ariko umwana wawe azacungurwa”. Icyo gihe musenyeri Pawulini yahisemo Kweregura, ajya muri Afurika kwigurana uwo mwana, nuko aba imfungwa y’ingaruzwamuheto mu kigwi cye. Hashize iminsi, imico ye myiza igaragaza ko ari umuromani ukomeye cyane kandi wize. Shebuja amaze kumenya ko Pawulini yari umwepisikopi, amurekurana n’abakristu benshi bari barafatiwe gukorera abanyafurika. Pawulini yagarukanye icyubahiro cyinshi mu mujyi wa Nole mu Butaliyani aho yahoze. Igihe kigeze, mu mwaka wa 431, yisangira Uwo yakoreye atizigamye. Tumwizihiza ku itariki 22 Kamena.

Izi nyandiko zagufasha kumenya byinshi:

• ABATAGATIFU duhimbaza buri munsi, ed.Euthymia, Diyosezi Butare, Mata 2013.181-182.
• ABATAGATIFU MU MINSI Y’UMWAKA, Ed. De l’imprimerie de Kabgayi, Icapwa rya kabiri, Nzeri 2015. P.176-177.
• DIX MILLE SAINTS, Dictionnaire hagiographique cyanditwe n’Ababenedigitini b’i Ramsgate. Ed.VI., Brepols,1991. P.396.
• https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1371/Saint-Paulin-de-Nole.html