St Josephine Bakhita, patron of victims of trafficking. “Seeing the sun, the moon, and the stars, I said to myself: Who could be the Master of these beautiful things? And I felt a great desire to see him, to know him, and pay him homage.”
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FD of St Josephine Bakhita who died as a nun in Italy on Feb 8 1947, a long distance from the day at 9 when she was kidnapped from her village in Sudan and sold into slavery. After a succession of brutal masters she was bought by an Italian family who took her back to Italy.
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