Josephine bakhita

ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA, VIRGIN St. Josephine Bakhita Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering. Feb.8

Saint John Paul II canonized Saint Josephine Bakhita in the Great Jubilee Year 2000 and her journey to sainthood was a remarkable one. Abducted and sold into slavery as a young girl, she endured beatings and brandings, but eventually she found freedom from enslavement. Her family name unknown, upon her baptism into the Catholic […]

Description Watercolour 21 x 29.5 cm March 2015 "Pretio empti estis nolite fieri servi hominum unusquisque in quo vocatus est fratres in hoc maneat apud Deum.” “You are bought with a price: be not made the bond slaves of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.” —1 Corinthians 7:23-24 First Reading for the Feast of Josephine Bakhita, Virgin February 8 St. Josephine Bakhita 1869 - February 8, 1947 Virgin, Canossian religious sister, patron…

St Josephine Bakhita

"In my Encyclical Spe Salvi, I wished to present St Josephine Bakhita, the Sudanese saint, as a witness of hope (cf. n. 3) in order to show how the encounter with the God of Jesus Christ can transform every human being in depth, even in the poorest conditions — Bakhita was a slave — to give him or her the supreme dignity of being a child of God. Rightly, “through the knowledge of this hope she was ‘redeemed’, no longer a slave, but a free child of God” (ibid.) And the discovery of Christian…

"Mary protected me even before I knew her!" St. Josephine Bakhita is in the center of the group photo Picture source “Bakhita has lef...

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St. Josephine Bakhita

“If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!” ~ St. Josephine Bakhita.