“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.”

— Josephine Bakhita

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

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