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Prayer: Saint Jerome Emiliani, watch over all children who are abandoned or unloved. Give us the courage to show them God's love through our care. Help us to lose the chains that keep us from living the life God intended for us. Amen Attributes: - Patronage: orphans, abandoned children See also: Josephine Bakhita
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.
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.
8 February: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin – optional memorial; 10 February: Saint Scholastica, Virgin – memorial; 11 February: Our Lady of Lourdes – optional memorial; 14 February: Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop – memorial; 17 February: The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order – optional memorial
Cristobal, Antonio and Juan (d. 1527–29), Children of the Diocese of Tlaxcala; Martyrs (Tlaxcala, Mexico) Declared Venerable: 3 March 1990; Beatified: 6 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II; Canonized: 15 October 2017 by Pope Francis
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.
Radio Bakhita 91.0 FM – the Voice of the Church – is a media house owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan. [1] It was established in 2006 and officially opened in Juba on 8 February 2007, the day the Church there celebrates the country's first saint, Josephine Bakhita .
8 February Saint Josephine Bakhita 9 February Saint Maron; 10 February Saint Scholastica; 10 February Saint Isaac of Armenia; 11 February Our Lady of Lourdes; 13 February Saint Absalom Jones; 14 February Saint Valentine; 14 February Saints Cyril and Methodius; 15 February 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya; 15 February Saint Thomas Bray