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Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) 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 1947.
Josephine Bakhita, Canossian religious (2000, Sudan) Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, layman (2002, Canary Islands) Daniel Comboni, bishop (2003, Sudan) Jacques Berthieu, Jesuit priest and martyr (2012, Madagascar) José de Anchieta, Jesuit priest (2014, Canary Islands) 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, (2015, Libya) commemorated in the Roman ...
It depicts formerly enslaved Afro-Italian nun and saint Josephine Bakhita opening a trapdoor as she frees figures that represent human-trafficking victims. The sculpture contains almost a hundred figures representing the different faces of human trafficking including sex exploitation, forced labor, debt bondage and more.
Saints: Rosa da Viterbo: ca. 1233 6 March 1251 18 Italy: Viterbo: Heroic Virtues Religious, Third Order of Saint Francis: Jeanne d'Arc: 6 January 1412 30 May 1431 19 France: Rouen: Martyr in odium fidei: Cristobal, Juan and Antonio: ca. 1514-17 1527 and 1529 12-13 Mexico: Tlaxcala: Martyr in odium fidei: Stanisław Kostka: 28 October 1550 15 ...
The foundress of the Canossians, Magdalen of Canossa (1774–1835), was canonized a saint on 2 October 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Mother Josephine Bakhita of Sudan (1869–1947) was also named a Canossian saint on 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II.
Eulalia (c. 289 – February 12, 303), co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian (the Sequence of Saint Eulalia mentions his co-emperor the "pagan king" Maximian).
Anne of Saint Bartholomew: 1626: 1917 Anne-Marie Javouhey: 1851: 1950 Annunciata Astoria Cocchetti: 1882: 1991 Anton Maria Schwartz: 1929: 1998 Anton Martin Slomšek: 1862: 1999 Antoine Chevrier, TOR: 1879: 1986 Antoni Julian Nowowiejski: 1941: 1999 Antoni Ulma: 1944: 2023 Antonio Franco: 1626: 2013 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati: 1855: 2007 Anthony ...
National and diocesan calendars, including that of the Diocese of Rome itself as well as the calendars of religious institutes and even of continents, add other saints and mysteries or transfer the celebration of a particular saint or mystery from the date assigned in the General Calendar to another date.