Bakhita: From Slave to Saint Austin OP(ed)

Bakhita: From Slave to Saint Austin OP(ed)In 1948 Aurora Marin arrives with her family at the convent of the Canossian Sisters of Schio, Italy, where Sister Bakhita has just died. Aurora had been hoping to see her before she died, and she gathers her children around the picture of Bakhita to tell them of the incredible life of the woman that had raised her as her nanny. Born in a village in Sudan, kidnapped by slavers, often beaten and abused, and later sold to Federico Marin, a Venetian

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