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Bakhita: From Slave to Saint

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When she used to be about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita used to be kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she used to be subjected to brutal and humiliating remedy until she used to be ransomed and taken to Venice, Italy, where she became a Catholic and a nun.

Joyfully and serenely Bakhita served in a convent, school and infirmary run by Canossian sisters in a small, difficult to understand town in northern Italy until her death in 1947. Then something even more remarkable than her redemption happened.

Hundreds of strange people came to see Bakhita lying in state, and at the side of these visits came stories about how the simple nun had given comfort, advice and encouragement as she went about her tasks as cook, doorkeeper, nurse, and so on. Almost immediately graces and miracles attributed to Bakhita’s intercession began to be reported.

Ever since, the place where Bakhita died and the wonders began has been a shrine visited by people from far and wide the world. They come to are seeking the intercession of one who used to be no stranger to loss and suffering and yet had given herself with complete confidence to the Lord. It is here, in this sparsely furnished room, where Italian journalist Roberto Italo Zanini begins his story of Bakhita and her journey from slavery to sainthood.

Based on Bakhita’s autobiography, which she dictated to a Canossian sister in obedience to her superior, the canonization files and lots of other sources, Zanini records the life, virtues and miracles of this daughter of Africa who has grow to be a sister to the whole world.

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