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Saints of the Month: February
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Saint Josephine Bakhita
Portrait of Josephine
Bakhita
The 8th of February is the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita
F.D.C.C. (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947). She is the patron saint
of Sudan and her feast day is dedicated as the International Day
of Prayer to Stop Human Trafficking.
Saint Josephine Bakhita’s family were wealthy Sudanese living
near Darfur. However, she when she was nine years old, she was
kidnapped and became a slave. She was renamed Bakhita,
meaning “fortunate” in Arabic by her kidnapper and was sold and
resold, being maltreated by her owners until 1883 where she was
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