Bakhita

Is in the Cathedral of El Obeid in Sudan that is the painting of the Canossian nun BAKHITA-sister lucky. Born Muslim, kidnapped child and sold slaves by some slave traders through a barrage and providential events had to enter the Catholic Church, to become a nun, to die.

Beatified by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter on 17 May 1992.

Sudanese Christians today who still suffer persecution and death invoke her as their protector in heaven.

This slave from Sudan has gone through untold suffering from slavery to human freedom and faith, to consecrate their lives to God in the Institute of the daughters of charity founded by Matilda of Canossa. He died in Schio, Vicenza on 1947.

We could collect some data particularly on the character also by father Amorth which tells us how, he being boy in his Emilia, found himself with all the boys of the parish to hear the same voice of Josephine Bakhita the vicissitudes experienced by the Saint in childhood and then in other passages of life in service of the Italian Consul and then in Italy and finally into the Congregation. What enticed the young Amorth was the joviality and the exuberance of the character, then involved in travel communities and parishes to talk about Jesus and how can we love Jesus even coming from another religion when you are looking for really the truth with courage and humility. Have entered the Catholic faith in fact, explained Bakhita means taking the name of him who “I already loved and felt in me without even knowing it”.

Abducted to the affections of parents and of the village while he dug weeds in a nearby field. It is singular that fact: herbs eradicated almost revenge and”pulled up the good grass” because you drag onto the mud of abbadono and of desolation can regenerate the field. ...

Ironically his captors gave her the name BAKHITA meaning – Lucky:

It is sold and resold multiple times, knows the physical and moral sufferings related to the total loss of liberty; It is also subjected to the tattoo almost to death. Is bought at the market in Khartoum by the Italian Consul and is amazed that she didn't use anymore the whip, but she loves. In the joy of the new environment but the dejection of having lost forever his family of origin.

Italy is in the retinue of Consul Callisto Legnani and his friend Augusto Michieli. In Genoa, pressed by the demands of the wife of the Michieli Consul gives them Bakhita and with them reached Zianigo where the slave is freed from nanny to small Mimmina.

Even when the family Michieli moves the Red Sea Bakhita stay with Karen at the Canossian Sisters of the Institute of the catechumens in Venice. Not surprisingly the initiative to remain apart from some “Lighted Castro.

Bakhita here requires baptism and is placed on January 9 GIUSEPPINA.il name 1890.Al return of Mrs. Michieli from the Red Sea to follow her on the journey is only more Mimmina because Josephine decided to make himself suorae to serve a God that gave you so many great trials of his love.

For fifty years he remained humble and simple tasks offered with generosity and heroic virtues;

The sisters the estimate much for his kindness and charity. After a long and painful illness and old age returned to his “PARON”

Remember the words that accompany the text that forms the backdrop to these notes by the Canossian Institute of Verona that in moments of agony begged the nurse who assisted her dìcendo: ” I spread your chains”!

But it was Mary to free her and her last words were:” OUR LADY! OUR LADY!”

His reputation for Holiness has now spread to all continents.

The graces he gets from the Lord are surprising and amazing.