Friday, June 28, 2019
Nine-year-old Bakhita (c. 1869-1947), playing in the fields near her home in Sudan, was captured by slave traders. She had been warned by her parents to be careful, since her older sister earlier had been captured and enslaved. At the cathedral in El Obeid, Sudan, a painting of Bakhita hangs next to that of the Blessed Mother, the Queen of Africa.