(RELIGION) BAKHITA JOSEPHINE What a Blessing it is to Know G

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(RELIGION.) BAKHITA, JOSEPHINE. What a Blessing it is to Know God. Josephine Bakhita 1869-1947. Small commemorative medal: white metal 1 x 2 inches containing a color photograph of the Sudanese Saint. Np, [circa 1947]

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a scarce little medal of josephine bakhita. Giuseppina Bakhita (1869-1947) was born near Darfur, in the Sudan. She was kidnapped by Arab slavers when she was around seven or eight years old. The slavers, who already had taken her sister, made her march 600 miles to El Obeid where she was sold. Over the course of the next 12 years, she was sold and re-sold three more times, and cruelly treated by all three masters. In 1883 she was purchased by an Italian government official who gave her to a kind Italian lady who put her in the care of the Canossian Sisters of Venice. There she was baptized in 1890 and spent the next 40 years of her life at their convent at Schio, where she became known as 'the little brown sister.' She was made a saint by John Paul II in 1992.