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St. Josephine Bakhita canonized saint, 1 October 2000
Philippine
Daily Inquirer (Oct. 3, 2000) THE TAPESTRY of newly canonized Josephine
Bakhita from Sudan hangs on St. Peter's facade during a canonization ceremony
held by Pope John Paul II. Bakhita, who was born in Sudan, was raised
as a slave and became a nun after she was brought up and freed by an Italian
consular official in Khartoum and taken to Italy, where she died in 1947.
"A saint for the Year 2000, enthralling, pleasant, humble, provoking, explosive, mystical, radically poor, totally in love with God. Bakhita is a woman with a wonderful capacity to relate with our diversified humanity, as it faces the new Millennium. She questions it, forces it to face its own responsibilities, and yet it makes it feel loved. Kidnapped as a child by slave traders, deprived of her liberty, cruelly handled, brutally exploited, she is redeemed by the Italian Consul in Sudan and brought to Italy at the end of the 19th century. As a sister, till 1947 she lives at Schio, (Vicenza). She cannot write. Her reading is limited to the strictly indispensible, a refugee 'ante litteram'. A friend of St. Pius X, admired by John Paul II. She speaks an imperfect Venetian dialect but what she says goes deep into the heart of men. She is black, and yet loved by whites. She is a Christian and yet respected by Muslims. She is prayed to by African women, and opposed by African regimes. She is a challenge for the missions. Whoever speaks to her immediately understands that she is a Saint. She promises prayer and intercessions for everybody..." - Roberto Italo Zanini (Bakhita, A Saint for the Third Millennium) |
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>FRESCO ON APSIS OF EL OBEID CATHEDRAL showing Daniele Comboni introducing Africa to Mary and her Child >H.H. PIUS X (Giuseppe Sarto) >MICHIELI'S HOME EARLY 2OTH CENTURY/TODAY >INSTITUTE OF THE CATECHUMENS situated at Rio Terra dei Catechumeni >BAPTISMAL FONT where BAKHITA became a Christian in January 9, 1890 >THE SILVER CRUCIFIX donated to BAKHITA by Illuminato Cecchini >ST. MAGDALEN OF CANOSSA Foundress of the Canossian Sisters >BAKHITA in one of the three photos taken by Bruner at Venice in 1933 >CANOSSIAN CONVENT IN SCHIO, Via Fusinato >THE CHAPEL PRESERVING THE REMAINS OF BAKHITA >BAKHITA AND THE SCHIO COMMUNITY in 1926 >BAKHITA with groups of past students in MILAN >BAKHITA AT VIMERCATE in 1938 >BAKHITA during her GOLDEN JUBILEE OF RELIGIOUS LIFE >ST.
PETER'S SQUARE ON THE OCCASION OF BAKHITA'S BEATIFICATION ON MAY 7, 1992
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