Feb
08
Saint Josefina Bakhita
February 8th XX century Religiosa
Saint Josefina Bakhita, Virgin, born in the region of Darfur, Sudan, who still even girl was abducted and sold in various African slave markets, suffering harsh captivity, but getting the freedom he embraced the Christian faith and joined the Institute of the daughters of charity (Canossian), spending the rest of his life in Schio near Vicenzagiven to Christ and to the service of others.
- Name
- Josefina (Femenino)
- Other saints
- Other saints named Josefina
- Born
- en Olgossa, Darfur, in current Sudan
- Dead
- February 8th 1947 in Schio, in current Italy
- Process
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- Beatifiedel 1992 por Blessed John Paul II
- Canonized on 2000 by Blessed John Paul II
- Celebration
- February 8th
- Religious
- de las Hijas de la Caridad Canossianas