Canossian DC, St. Bakhita, Lauded by Pope
Zenit “At age 7, Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947) was sold and purchased five times by Arab traders. In 1882, an Italian consular agent purchased her and took her to Italy. There, she learned about Christianity and was baptized in 1890, entering later in the Institute of Canossian Daughters of Charity.
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“Her life inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence, ensuring that their human dignity is respected in the full exercise of their rights,” the Pope said.
“It is this same resolve that must guide the Church in the Sudan today as the nation makes the transition from hostility and conflict to peace and concord,” he said. “St. Bakhita is a shining advocate of authentic emancipation.”
According to the study of the Vincentian Family by Betty Ann McNeil “The Canossian Daughters of Charity, also called Daughters of Charity, Servanats of the Poor, were founded in 1808 at Verona Italy by Saint Maddalena Gabriella de Canossa (1774-1835), canonized 1988) for hospital work and education, particularly Christian Doctrine. The founder was familiar with the Vincentian spirit and had planned to found this institute in collaboration with a Lady of Charity who changed her mind and abandoned the project.
The mission of the institute is to serve the poor.
Other communities evolved from its foundation:
the Institute of the Holy Family of Leopoldina Naudet;
the Minims of Charity of Mary the Most Sorrowful Mother of Teodora Compestrini;
the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of Maria Bucchi;
the Daughters of the Church of Oliva Bonaldo.
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