Garden of Gethsemane, St Theresa Health Centre, Wanda, Tanzania (2025)
During her visit to the St Theresa Health Centre in April 2025, RBW decided to contribute financially to the “Garden of Gethsemane” project, commissioned earlier that year by Sister Dr Sabina Mangi and then under construction. This contemplative space, located between the Sisters’ private quarters and the Health Centre, was conceived as a place of remembrance and prayer. It invites the sick to recall the Passion of Christ and to find solace in the knowledge that the Son of God, who gave his life out of love for humanity, continues to live within their hearts. Here, in their suffering, they may entrust themselves to Him who endured greater pain than any human being.
Since its solemn inauguration on 29 May 2025 by Cardinal Romanus Mihali of Iringa, the garden has become a symbolic site of devotion where the Sisters gather daily to pray (also in memory of Urs Burki), joined by patients, relatives, and increasingly by members of the hospital staff.
For Sister Dr Sabina Mangi, the initiator of this small oratory, visitors are reminded that the true healer is not the worldly physician, but God himself. The doctor, she affirms, is merely the instrument through which the divine will is carried out.