First a slave, then a Saint

2 Replies

St. Josephine Bakhita, Feast day, February 8.

Thanks be to God for so glorious a witness to faith, love, and forgiveness of one’s enemies.

2 thoughts on “First a slave, then a Saint”

  1. Rodger Menezes

    What a beautiful Saint. I was reading her biography and discovered how brutally she was treated as a slave. Incredible. What a transformation and what grace and cooperation between our Lord and her..

  2. resolute ros

    Hi Mary. For the last year, I’ve been reading about Sudan into tape for a blind professor. Sudan has a deep history and deep wealth of people. What a woman; what a saint!

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s