Editing Legio Maria (section)

===Dead and risen===
While at Sagegi in 1958, serving as a Catholic catechist, and living in the home of another catechist known as Petrus Pitalis Ogeka, Simeo Ondetto is said to have died for 3 days and came back to life with a mission-focused approach.<ref name=xx2/> After rising from death, Ondetto began to call himself the son of God. He was now preaching that he had gone to confer with God the Father about his mission and was freed to begin his mission. He describes a visit to heaven, chats with saints, angels, and God. Simeo Ondetto permitted the baptism of polygamists and the baptism of old Catholic converts without going through catechism training.<ref name=Legiopedia/> He also said that he was sent to start a church called Legio Maria.

====Appearances of the Virgin Mary====
According to early adherents of Legio Maria, the Virgin Mary began appearing among the Luo people in the late 1920s.<ref name=xx1/> In their accounts, they say that she first appeared as an extraordinary itinerary woman. At a time estimated to be around 1935, this woman was walking at Awendo market in [[South Nyanza District|South Nyanza]], when an empathizing tailor known as Omollo who was the son of Nyunja of Alego, Udida, gave her a dress gift. This woman is said to have promised Omollo an eternal name among the Luos.<ref name=xx1/> From that day on she began calling herself the mother of Omollo. By the 1940s, this woman is claimed to have visited the [[Catholic parish of Nyandago]] and conversed with over five members of its clergy about the mission of Ondetto. However, priests at Nyandago mission discounted the supposed apparitions, stating that Mary could not appear as a Black African.<ref name=Dreaming/>{{rp|172}}

Legio tradition tells of Mary and her son being incarnated as Luo in the beginning of the 1900s, with Mary entering into an earlier time period than Jesus. Mary wandered throughout Luo land during this time, performing healings and other miracles; the church was officially organised "when the 90-year-old Mary and her adult spiritual Son, Simeo Ondetto, were reunited in Suna, South Nyanza followed by the coming of the Holy Spirit(Mount the World Has Opened to the Light)."<ref name=Dreaming/>{{rp|168}}  Schwartz recounts that the "Black Mary 'returned to Heaven' on 23 December 1966, and that those who met her claimed "direct personal experience of Mary's disclosure of the meanings of the 'Third Secret of Fatima,'" in which it was revealed that "the Virgin Mary brought a new liberating religion for the world through an African Mission!"<ref name=Dreaming/>{{rp|179}}  At nearly 90 years of age, from 1963 to 1966, the mystical Mary could not reach many places. This resulted in the confusion of [[Gaudencia Aoko]], a prophet, with Mama Maria, the harbinger who prepared the world for the coming of her son.