Her life had truly become “fortunate,” as she said herself: “If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I would not be a Christian and a religious today.” St. Josephine Bakhita - Information on the Saint of the Day -

 Her life had truly become “fortunate,” as she said herself: “If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I 

would not be a Christian and a religious today.”

St. Josephine Bakhita - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/08/st--josephine-bakhita--virgin.html 

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