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===Birth and early life of Simeo Ondetto===
Born in around 1926 to Luo parents, Margaret Aduwo and Obimbo Misumba, Simeo Ondetto grew up in [[Angoro village]], [[Kano (state)|Kano]] location, near the [[Nyanza-Rift Valley]] border.{{#tag:ref|Oloo, Tobias. 2013. Ruoth Oduogo. Legio Maria publishers, Kisumu|name=xx1}} He was named Ondetto by his parents and later got baptised as Simeo after years of studying catechism. According to his brother, Nelson Owino Obimbo, a Legio Maria Cardinal Dean (2011), Simeo was an extraordinary child. Owino who is older than Ondetto lists around six childhood miracles performed by Ondetto while young.<ref name=xx1/> Ondetto left their home in Awasi as a young man, worked at [[Miwani Sugar Company]] in [[Western Province (Kenya)|Western Kenya]] for a short duration before moving to Tanzania Mara to stay with his relatives there. Around 1955,Ondetto returned home in Awasi, only focused on a missionary life. To find a way of keeping him home, his parents called a meeting that resolved that the only way to keep him home was to have him get married.<ref name=xx1/> Ondetto declined the offer of a wife and instead kept a life of solitude and meditation. He moved to Sagegi to live with a catholic catechist before starting the Legio movement.