Tracing the roots of St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in our new four-part series. This week we travel back to the 1930’s and discover how one
born in 1869, in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working in the fields with her family and subsequently sold into slavery. Her captors asked for her name but she was too terrified to remember so they named her “Bakhita,” which means “fortunate” in Arabic.
Quick Links: Our Parish Faith & Purpose About St. Josephine Bakhita Videos & Mass Who We Are The use of the word Black with a
