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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 ...
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
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.
The Encyclopedia of Saints. Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-4133-4. Bunson, Matthew, Margaret Bunson and Stephen Bunson (2003). Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ISBN 1-931709-75-0. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Ball, Ann (2004). Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words.
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.
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
St. Peter's Basilica: 42. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre: 2 June 1996 43. Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph Francis Anthony Postillo: 44. Juan Grande Román: 45. Jadwiga of Poland: 8 June 1997: Kraków, Poland: 46. John of Dukla: 10 June 1997: Krosno, Poland: 47. Teresa Benedict of the Cross: 11 October 1998 St. Peter's Basilica: 48. Marcellin Joseph Benoît ...