Vivian, was born in Benin City the capital of Edo State, Nigeria on the 1st of April, 1995 and baptized on July 1, 1995. She received her first Holy Communion on the 26th of March, 2005. She attended Air Force Nursery and Primary School and was in Senior Secondary II in Greater Tomorrow Secondary School when she was martyred.
She was a parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church, Benin City; a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the choir mistress of the children choir and the president of the Holy Childhood Association in the parish where she made remarkable impact both at the parish and Archdiocesan level. As a renowned preacher she inspired and mentored so many children and even youths especially in her parish and her School in following the path of holiness and defending the dignity of virginity following the footsteps of St. Maria Goretti, her favourite saint.
On Sunday, the 15th of November, 2009, after preaching on the same topic to her fellow children in the church in the morning, the opportunity came for her to put into practice what she preached all her life. While at home that evening, armed men came to rob her family and afterwards took her to a nearby bush and attempted to rape her. She vehemently refused and opted to be shot instead and indeed she was martyred.
Hearing of Vivian’s heroic death, the Edo State Government gave the land on which she was killed to the Archdiocese of Benin City to immortalize her. Two years later, the Ikpoba Okha Local Government Council named the street after her. A Missionary Animation centre is now being constructed in her honour on that site.
The Vivian Ogu Movement (VOM) was Inaugurated on the 29th of March 2014, By the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, Most Rev. Dr. Augustine Akubeze to pursue the cause for her Immortalisation and glorification which has the beatification and canonization of Vivian as the ultimate focus.
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