It was January 9, St. Bakhita was attracted to the religious life and entered the Canossian Sisters where she remained for about forty five years. Bakhita was born in the heart of Africa in a very typical African village consisting of a few round huts with thatched roofs constructed in a circle around a meeting area for the village. On 17 May 1992, she was declared Blessed and given February 8 as her feast day. each new day, she became more aware of who this God was, whom she now knew and Amen, […] Josephine Bakhita https://ucatholic.com/saints/josephine-bakhita/ […], Do you uCatholic know that facebook is heading practising a occult programme – you can check this out at youtube.
for her own family, whom, perhaps, she had lost forever. O St. Bakhita, assist all those who are trapped in a state of slavery; Intercede with God on their behalf so that they will be released from their chains of captivity. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete.
She had several brothers and sisters. Bakhita breathed her last on February 8, 1947 at the Canossian Convent, Schio, Seeing the
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[5][6][7] She was also forcibly converted to Islam. This time for love and with a new Master. Bakhita In 1877, Josephine was kidnapped by Arab slave traders.
For three days her body lay on display while thousands of people arrived to pay their respects.
Here Bakhita came to learn about God, whom she’d “had experienced in her heart without knowing who He was” since she was a young child. She did not know how to express her joy that day. Josephine Margaret Bakhita, F.D.C.C. This African flower, who knew the anguish of kidnapping and slavery, bloomed marvelously in Italy, in response to God's grace, with the Daughters of Charity. She remained a humble and devout Sister holding many different positions.
She remained in the Catechumenate for four more years, studying, praying and performing household tasks.
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On Bakhita says: "During all the years I stayed in that house, I do not recall a day that passed without some wound or other. Saint Josephine Bakhita Parish We are a Christ centered, Roman Catholic faith community in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. "AFROL Background Josephine Bakhita - an African Saint", "Canossian Daughters of Charity - Who We Are", Black Catholic Theology: A Historical Perspective, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josephine_Bakhita&oldid=986211826, Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns, Sudanese Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns, Christian female saints of the Late Modern era, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1 October 2000, St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II, This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 13:40.
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