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St. Josephine Bakhita

Kidnapped from her home in Sudan, Josephine Bakhita was sold into slavery as a little girl. After being subjected to a series of different slave owners who would torture and beat her, Bakhita was sold to an Italian diplomat when she was 14 years old. It was around this time that she was introduced to Christianity by the Sisters of Charity in Venice. Bakhita refused to return to Africa with the diplomat when he and his family relocated and remained at the convent serving as the cook, seamstress, sacristan, and doorkeeper for the next 50 years until her death in 1947. St. Josephine Bakhita is the first African woman to be canonized as a saint by the Church in the 21st century.

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