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

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"Mary protected me even before I knew her!" St. Josephine Bakhita is in the center of the group photo Picture source “Bakhita has left us a witness of evangelical reconciliation and forgiveness, which will surely bring consolation to the Christians of her homeland, the Sudan, so sorely tried by a conflict that has lasted many years and reaped so many victims. Sister Bakhita has been given to us by the Lord as a universal sister….” - Venerable Pope John Paul II at her canonization Canossian…

St. Josephine Bakhita

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 […]