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Josephine Bakhita Quotes

1860–1947 Italy

Josephine Margaret Bakhita (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian nun who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000 she was declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

Italy

Also known as: Bakhita

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Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a great grace it is to know God!

If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I would not be a Christian and a religious today.

When a person loves another very much, she greatly wished to meet that person. Why then should I be afraid of death? Death brings us to God.

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself: Who could be the Master of these beautiful things? And I felt a great desire to see him, to know Him and to pay Him homage...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josephine Bakhita (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.