Today is the Feast Day of St. Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of Sudan. There is a nice article about her over on the Word on Fire blog - be sure to check it out. She is a great saint of modern times! The article describes her as:...a Sudanese woman who was sold into brutal and abusive slavery as a young girl in the Darfur region of Africa, eventually transported to Italy to work for a friend of her owner’s family, and, when she resisted returning to Africa in favor of joining the religious order who taught the young daughter of the family for whom she worked, was set free because of the dictates of Italian law. After professing eternal vows, she lived out the remainder of her life as a Canossian Sister of the Institute of Catechumens in Venice, Italy.Read more here.
Hear Fr. James Kubicki of the Apostleship of Prayer share her story here in this video:
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