Biography of st josephine bakhita parish
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Josephine Bakhita
Italian saint and former slave (–)
Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. &#; 8 February ) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in She was canonized in , becoming the first female black Catholic saint in the modern era.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]She was born around in Darfur (now in western Sudan) in the village of Olgossa, west of Nyala and close to Mount Agilerei.[4] She was one of the Daju people;[5][6] her respected and reasonably prosperous father was brother of the village chief. She was surrounded by a loving family of three brothers and three sisters; as she says in her autobiography: "I lived a very happy and carefree life, without knowing what suffering was".[7]
Enslavement
[edit]In , when she was 7–8 years old, she was seized by Arab slave traders, who h
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St. Josephine BakhitaFeast day: Feb 08
On February 8, the Church commemorates the life of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sudan.
Josephine Bakhita was born in , in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working in the fields with her family and subsequently sold into slavery. Her captors asked for her name but she was too terrified to remember so they named her “Bakhita,” which means “fortunate” in pectively, Bakhita was very fortunate, but the first years of her life do not necessarily attest to it. She was tortured by her various owners who branded her, beat and cut her biography she notes one particularly terrifying moment when one of her masters cut her times and poured salt in her wounds to ensure that the scars remained.“I felt inom was going to die any moment, especially when they rubbed me in with the salt,” Bakhita bore her suffering valiantly though she did not know Christ or the redemptiv•
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February 8: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin—Optional Memorial
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Patron Saint of Sudan and human-trafficking survivors
Canonized October 1, by Saint Pope John Paul II
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Version: Full &#; Short
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Quote:
If I was to meet those slave-traders that abducted me and those who tortured me, I&#;d kneel down to them to kiss their hands, because, if it had not have been for them, I would not have become a Christian and religious woman. ~Saint Josephine Bakhita
Reflection: In , a daughter was born into a loving and well-respected family in western Sudan, in a village of the Daju tribe. Until the age of six, she and her three brothers and three sisters lived a happy and carefree life. That would all change around the year when one sister was abducted by Arab slave traders. Two years later, she also became their victim. When her captor asked her name, she could