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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.
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 .
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.
Ruiz was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Manila in 1981 and was later canonized at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, in 1987. 25 years later, the title of "saint" was bestowed upon another martyr, Pedro Calungsod. Calungsod was canonized in October 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.
In 2008, 15 life-size images of saints with their names were added outside the cathedral representing the patron saints from the 11 towns and 1 city of Bataan where the Diocese of Balanga has jurisdiction with and a few towns have multiple saints (with St. Gemma Galgani was later added as the 16th and latest statue four years later in 2012 ...