| LC control no. | n 84186357 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bakhita, mère, 1869-1947 |
| Variant(s) | Bakhita, Giuseppina, 1869-1947 Bakhita, Joséphine-Marguerite-Fortunée, 1869-1947 Bakhita, mère, d. 1947 Joséphine-Marguerite-Fortunée-Bakhita, 1869-1947 |
| Associated country | Sudan |
| Associated place | Italy |
| Birth date | 1869 |
| Death date | 1947-02-08 |
| Place of birth | Darfur (Sudan) |
| Place of death | Schio (Italy) |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church Daughters of Charity of Canossa |
| Profession or occupation | Household employees Nuns Saints |
| Found in | Bakhita, 1983: t.p. (Bakhita) p. 5 (mère Bakhita) p. 37 (baptized 1-9-1890, Joséphine-Marguerite-Fortunée-Bakhita) p. 49 (d. 2-8-47) Bakhita, 1961: p. facing t.p. (Giuseppina Bakhita; Figlia della Carità Canossiana) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 11, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bakhita, Josephine; Giuseppina Margherita Fortunata; La Nostra Madre Moretta; freed slave, Roman Catholic saint, household employee; born 1869 in Darfur, Sudan; was taken by slave traders (1876 and sold to an Ottoman army officer (1879), who treated her brutally; she had several subsequent owners; eventually she was acquired by a Catholic merchant (1885) and accompanied his wife to Venice (1888); in 1889 she was freed because slavery was outlawed both in Sudan and in Italy; she was baptized as Giuseppina Margherita Fortunata (1890) and accepted as a novice of the Daughters of Charity of Canossa at the Institute of St. Magdalene in Venice (1893); became a nun (1896); was transferred to Schio to serve as a cook (1902); she told her story to Sister Teresa Fabris, in 1910 and it was published (1919, 1929, 1931); she was widely known as La Nostra Madre Moretta; Pope John Paul II proclaimed the Decree of the Heroic Practice of All Virtues (1978) and beatified her (1992); she was canonized as "Our Universal Sister" and adopted as patron saint of Sudan (2000); Pope Benedict XVI mentioned her in the encyclical Spe Salvi, and her life has been reproduced in books, movies, and a musical; died 08 February 1947 in Schio, Italy) |
| Not found in | New Cath enc. |
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