ST. JEROME EMILIANI, FOUNDER OF SOMASCHI FATHERS, PATRON OF ORPHANS AND THE NEEDY YOURTH, ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA, VIRGIN, Feb.8

ST. JEROME EMILIANI, FOUNDER OF SOMASCHI FATHERS, PATRON OF ORPHANS AND THE NEEDY YOUTH
St. Jerome Emiliani, founder of the Somaschi Fathers and is the patron saint of orphans. Feastday February 8

ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA, VIRGIN

St. Josephine Bakhita Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering. Feb.8