RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Josephine Bakhita

1868 - 1947

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Josephine Margaret Bakhita, (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947. She was canonized in 2000, becoming the first female black Catholic saint in the modern era. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josephine Bakhita is the 831st most popular religious figure (down from 751st in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Sudan and the 2nd most popular Sudanese Religious Figure.

Josephine Bakhita was a slave who was captured in the Sudan and taken to Italy. She was freed from slavery and became a nun.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Josephine Bakhita ranks 831 out of 3,187. Before her are John of Capistrano, Thaddeus of Edessa, Lorenzo Ruiz, Romuald, Justus, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. After her are Athenagoras of Athens, Peter Faber, Scipione Borghese, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, and Saint Cajetan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Josephine Bakhita ranks 40. Before her are Annie S. D. Maunder, Louis Couturat, Vittorio Monti, Florence Foster Jenkins, Huo Yuanjia, and Scott Joplin. After her are Stefan George, Pompeu Fabra, Felix Hausdorff, Édouard Vuillard, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Eleanor H. Porter. Among people deceased in 1947, Josephine Bakhita ranks 39. Before her are Alexander Löhr, Annie S. D. Maunder, Qazi Muhammad, Georg von Trapp, Reginald Innes Pocock, and Pierre Janet. After her are Hans Fallada, Pyotr Krasnov, Emma Orczy, Irving Fisher, Bugsy Siegel, and Herbert Backe.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Josephine Bakhita ranks 6 out of 38. Before her are Omar al-Bashir (1944), Luqman (-1100), Mohamed Naguib (1901), Muhammad Ahmad (1844), and Piye (-800). After her are Gaafar Nimeiry (1930), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), John Garang (1945), Osman Hussein (1951), Abdalla Hamdok (1956), and Tayeb Salih (1929).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Sudan

Among religious figures born in Sudan, Josephine Bakhita ranks 2. Before her are Muhammad Ahmad (1844). After her are Gabriel Zubeir Wako (1941).

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