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Josephine Bakhita
Italian saint and former slave (1869–1947)
Josephine Margaret Bakhita (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة), FDCC (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Canossianreligious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan.
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In 2000, she was declared a saint, the first black woman to receive the honor in the modern era.
Biography
Early life
She was born around 1869 in Darfur (now in western Sudan) in the village of Olgossa, west of Nyala and close to Mount Agilerei.[4] She was one of the Daju people;[5][6] her respected and reasonably prosperous father was brother of the village chief.
She was surrounded by a loving family of three brothers and three sisters; as she says in her autobiography: "I lived a very happy and carefree life, without knowing what suffering was".[7]
Slavery
In 1877, when she was 7–8 years old, she was seized by Arab slave traders, who had abducted her elder sister two years e
