{"id":45087,"date":"2025-02-08T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=45087"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:14:43","slug":"saint-of-the-day-saint-josephine-bakhita-is-patron-saint-of-trafficking-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/santo-del-dia-santa-josefina-bakhita-es-patrona-de-las-victimas-de-la-trata\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of trafficking victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
Born in Darfur, Sudan, in 1869, she was abducted by slave traders when she was still a child and sold in African markets, cruelly mistreated as a child, and then sold in African markets. slave<\/a>. Bakhita, whose name means Fortunate, was freed by an Italian merchant, and through a married couple who were friends of his, already in Italy, she met Jesus, was baptized and professed as a Canossian nun for 51 years. The inhabitants of Schio, where she lived and died, discovered in their \"little mother morenita\" a great inner strength, based on prayer and charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its Message<\/a> for the XI World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Hunger and Poverty Human Trafficking<\/a>Pope Francis, who also dedicated to him a special message of thanksgiving, which takes place today, Pope Francis, who also dedicated to him a catechesis<\/a> in 2023, he wrote: \"Together - trusting in the intercession of St. Bakhita - we will succeed in making a great effort and creating the conditions so that trafficking<\/a> and exploitation be outlawed and that respect for fundamental human rights always prevail, in the fraternal recognition of our common humanity\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saint Bakhita pardoned<\/a> to the traffickers, and forgiveness set her free, Pope Francis wrote. Thanks to the message of reconciliation and mercy<\/a> Josephine Bakhita was beatified and named \"Universal Sister\" by St. John Paul II in 1992. In the ceremony<\/a> St. Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1 was also beatified. St. Josephine Bakhita was canonized by St. John Paul II in October 2000. The Italian director Giacomo Campiotti<\/a> directed the film Bakhita<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nacida en Darfur (Sud\u00e1n), en 1869, fue raptada por comerciantes de esclavos cuando a\u00fan era ni\u00f1a, y vendida en mercados africanos, fue maltratada cruelmente como esclava. Bakhita, cuyo nombre significa Afortunada, fue liberada por un comerciante italiano, y a trav\u00e9s de un matrimonio amigo de aqu\u00e9l, ya en Italia, conoci\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas, fue bautizada y […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":45088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[396,716,8],"class_list":["post-45087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-papa-francisco","tag-san-juan-pablo-ii","tag-santos"],"yoast_head":"\n