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Saint Bakhita the Patron Saint of human trafficking.
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Saint Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan in 1869.
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Bakhita was sold and resold
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in the markets of El Obeid and of Khartoum.
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She experienced the humiliations and sufferings of slavery,
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both physical and moral.
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Bakhita was not the name
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she received from her parents at birth.
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The fright and the terrible experiences she went through
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made her to forget
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the name she was given by her parents.
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Bakhita, which means fortunate,
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was the name given to her by kidnappers.
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This African flower,
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who knew the anguish of kidnapping and slavery,
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bloomed marvellously in Italy,
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and in response to God's grace,
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with the Daughters of Charity.
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Divine Providence which cares for the flowers of the fields
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and the birds of the air,
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guided the Sudanese slave
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through innumerable and unspeakable sufferings
of human freedom
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and to the freedom of faith
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and finally to the consecration of her life to God
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for the coming of the Kingdom.
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Her humility and simplicity
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and her constant smile
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warms the hearts of all.
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And she grew old,
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and experienced long, painful years of sickness.
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Mother Bakhita continued to witness to faith,
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goodness, and Christian hope.
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It was Mary Most Holy
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who free from all pain,
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her last words,
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‘Our Lady! Our Lady’,
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and her final smile
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testified to her
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the Mother of the Lord.
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Today, as we celebrate her feast day,
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we pray for the end of human trafficking
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in our modern world.
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And pray for the sufferers or the survivors.
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May the Lord provide and protect them.
