Bakhita: From Slave to Saint FisichellaWhen she was about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she was ransomed and taken to Venice, Italy, where she became a Catholic and a nun. Joyfully and serenely Bakhita served in a convent, school and infirmary run by Canossian sisters in a small, obscure town in northern Italy until her death in 1947. Then something
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The present biography was written in 1957 at the request of the postulation of the Dominican Order at Santa Sabina
the Creed catapults believers to the brink of mystery and invites them to dwell there
In their place he offers a compelling vision of a world in which it matters what you believe
The Catholic understanding of sexual desire
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His new book is a deeply moving and heartfelt account of his own journey from the 'culture of death' to the 'culture of life
but most precious relics: the small cloth that lay on Jesus's face in the tomb
I retells wise and treasured stories from the great history of the Jewish people
