Joséphine Bakhita citations

Joséphine Bakhita , dite la "Madre moretta" , dont la date de naissance est estimée à 1869 au Soudan, province du Darfour, à Olgossa, et morte le 8 février 1947 à Schio en Italie, est une ancienne esclave devenue religieuse canossienne.

Elle est canonisée en l'an 2000 par le pape Jean-Paul II, et fêtée le 8 février. Wikipedia

✵ 1868 – 8. février 1947

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Joséphine Bakhita: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Josephine Bakhita

Quoted in "Goodness and missionary zeal", The Holy See https://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010112_bakhita_en.html.

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

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Josephine Bakhita

Quoted in "Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947)", The Holy See https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_giuseppina-bakhita_en.html.

“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.”

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Josephine Bakhita

Quoted in "St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin", Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/08/st--josephine-bakhita--virgin.html.