St josephine bakhita patron saint of

Our patron was born around 1869 in the country of Sudan.

“My family lived at the very heart of Africa at the outskirts of Darfur, in a village named Algoznei, close to Mount Agilerei.

Our family consisted of my parents, three brothers and four sisters. There had also been four others whom I have never seen because they died before I was born.

What is saint josephine bakhita known for

I had a twin sister. I lived a very happy and carefree life then, without knowing what suffering meant.”(1) In these first years of her life, children of the village played together, the members of the community loved to dance, and the main occupation was breeding cattle and sheep.

Life was good.

 

When she was 5, everything changed. In a surprise attack, slave traders ransacked her village and took one of her sisters away. As she later recounted,“I can recall vividly how bitterly my mother cried and how we all cried too.

In the evening, when my father returned from work and learned of the tragedy, livid with fury, he