Josephine Bakhita
A Sudanese girl kidnapped and sold into slavery, who found freedom in Italy and became a Canossian nun, a witness to human dignity.
- Contemporary era
- Feast day February 8
- † 1947
- Virgin
- Nun
Born in Sudan, Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped as a child and sold multiple times into slavery, enduring terrible suffering. Once in Italy, she regained her freedom and, moved by faith, she joined the Canossian Sisters. Her religious life was marked by simplicity, humility, and service, becoming a powerful symbol of forgiveness and hope for victims of slavery and human trafficking.
Patronage
Recognising
invoked to hold firm under trial
Places
- Death
- Schio