St. Josephine Bakhta Research Paper

Prophets Jeremiah was from a family of priest. He was born in the town of Anathoth in Benjamin in 655 BC. Jeremiah was young when God called to him. He was afraid at first but then God showed him his vision he started believing more and more about the faith of God. After the death of King Josiah the Hebrew people started worshiping a false god. After this Jeremiah knew he had to start preaching his message about God to them. After telling the Hebrews they shouldn’t worship a false god they beat him, and threw him in prison. Even though Jeremiah was in prison he kept preaching because he wanted all people to believe in God . Jeremiah threatened the people and said “ If God’s people are not following him they will have to suffer and do what God asks them to do.”

St. Josephine Bakhita was born in a small village called Olgossa around 1869. Josephine was a slave for many years. When she was seven years old she was kidnapped by the Arab slave traders. When she was twelve years old she was bought and sold over a dozen times. In 1883 a man named Callisto Legnani bought Josephine. Callisto was an Italian man and treated Bakhita …show more content…
Josephine Bakhita lived the Spiritual works of Mercy. One of the Spiritual Works of Mercy the St. Bakhita did is forgive offenses. She did this when the Arab slave traders kidnapped her and put her into slavery. Once they found out that slavery was illegal she forgave them for putting her in slavery and beating her. St. Bakhita also prayed for the living and the dead. When josephine was in slavery she prayed for all people to be treated with kindness and respect so that no one would have to be a slave and live in a dark world. One last Spiritual Work of Mercy the St. Bakhita did was bear wrongs patiently. When Josephine got beaten and sold to other masters she didn’t get mad at them she did what they wanted when they wanted. These were some of the works of mercy that St. Bakhita had in her