About This Attraction
The Sister Aidan Memorial Centre is located on the grounds of the St Peter’s Claver’s Church in Duncan Village, in honour of slain Irish nun Sister Aidan Quinlan, who was killed in 1952 by a mob in Duncan Village. This is the same church the nun was heading to in order to do her missionary work when she was accosted by a mob and killed.
Sister Aiden had driven into Duncan Village, where there was a confrontation between police and angry youths as part of ongoing anti-apartheid protests in most townships. Here she was killed and her flesh was removed and consumed. Others took her flesh for umuthi by the public who believed that they would gain some of her power.