Couple gives account of 'miracle birth' that will see another Italian nun become a Saint

St Joseph Benedict Cottolengo Sisters based at Gatunga Parish in Tharaka, with the Landrover that ferried Joyce Muriungi to Materi Hospital on April 13, 2013. [George Kaimenyi, Standard]

At the Gatung’a Catholic Parish in Tharaka Nithi, an old but mint Land Rover Defender takes its place of pride, regularly used as the backdrop of photographs taken by Catholic nuns in the parish.

The pale-blue Land Rover, registration number KUN 637, has a central part in the fascinating story that will lead up to the coronation of Sister Maria Carola Cecchin in Meru on November 5 by the Catholic Church.