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The feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, an enslaved African who died in 1947, is Feb. 8. A tapestry that depicts her hangs from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica during her canonization in 2000 at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS/Reuters/L'Osservatore Romano)
The feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, an enslaved African who died in 1947, is Feb. 8. A tapestry that depicts her hangs from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica during her canonization in 2000 at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS/Reuters/L'Osservator