BAKHITA Around 2006 I received a pendant of St Bakhita from my nephew Oduwa’s teacher at Sacred Heart’s Nursery and Primary School, Iguosa. Prior to that day id never heard of her. Receiving that gift intrigued me to find out more about this lady whose pendant I now wore from time to time. This was what I found out - Saint Bakhita was born in 1869 in Dafur region of Western Sudan in the Rift Valley of Olgossa close to a Mount, Gebel Agilere. She had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Seeing the sun, moon & stars, she asked herself, 'Who is the Master of these beautiful things?' When she was 8years old she went for a walk with her 14 year old friend when two strangers came and kidnapped only her. With fear, she could not speak so they named her Bakhita, that is, lucky one. In the captor's house, she met another young girl slightly older than her and they became friends. While on trade, they escaped but landed in another captor's hand, who sold them to a chief, to be maids to...
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