Josephine Margaret Bakhita, F.D.C.C. was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years after being a slave in Sudan.

For many years, Josephine Bakhita was a slave but her spirit was always free and eventually that spirit prevailed.

In 2000, she was declared a saint, the first Black woman to receive the honor in the modern era.

A young student once asked Bakhita: "What would you do, if you were to meet your captors?" Without hesitation, she replied: "If I were to meet those who kidnapped me, and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands. For, if these things had not happened, I would not have been a Christian and a religious today".

She is the patron saint of Sudan, victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Her feast day is celebrated on February 8.


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