{"id":1380,"date":"2019-02-08T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:14:08","slug":"st-josephine-bakhita-feast-day-and-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"St. Josephine Bakhita, Feast Day and quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted several times about this former Sudanese slave who ultimately became a Catholic sister in Italy. Here is the first time in 2008 &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/02\/st-josephine-ba.html\">St. Josephine Bakhita &#8211; saint of Darfur<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And today &#8211; February 8th, the day she died in 1947 &#8211; is her feast day. Canonized in 2000, a great Saint for this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35414a4200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35414a4200c-150wi\" alt=\"Josephine bakhita\" title=\"Josephine bakhita\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this &#8211; too bad Stephen Hawking never read this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>&#8220;Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, \u2018Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?\u2019 I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>\u2014 St. Josephine Bakhita<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">And this &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad399e4dc200b-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12542\" title=\"Josephine bakhita saying\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Here she is in stained glass &#8211; portrayed with chains.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35414c0200c-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12543\" title=\"Josephine bakhita stained glass\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"> <br><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted several times about this former Sudanese slave who ultimately became a Catholic sister in Italy. Here is the first time in 2008 &nbsp;St. Josephine Bakhita &#8211; saint of Darfur. And today &#8211; February 8th, the day she died in 1947 &#8211; is her feast day. Canonized in 2000, a great Saint for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12544,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}