Saint Josephine Bakhita
Also known as: Giuseppina Bakhita; Madre Moretta; Sister Moretta
Saint
Post-Congregation
Feast Day
February 8
Died
February 8, 1947
Canonized
1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy
Beatified
17 May 1992 by Pope John Paul II
Biography
Saint Josephine Bakhita, also known as Giuseppina Bakhita, Madre Moretta, and Sister Moretta, was born in 1868 to a wealthy Sudanese family in the region of Darfur, Sudan. Tragically, at the tender age of 9, she was kidnapped by slave-traders and forced into a life of slavery. The captors gave her the name Bakhita, which means "lucky" in Arabic....
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