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Hey there, it's Browds. Today is Friday, February 8th, 2019. It is also the Vistae of St. Josephine,

Bekita. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we have been talking about how we are called to

trust in God's plan. We talked about how we are not called to the easy life and how every pursuit of

our lives should be to bring glory to God and not just to make ourselves more comfortable. We then talked

about two amazing Christian martyrs, St. Agatha and St. Paul of Japan, who both gave their lives, knowing that this was part of God's

plan, even though they might not have been able to see the whole picture at the time.

Yesterday, we talked about how we are called to trusting God's plan in small ways, and how, in fact,

nothing is small to God, including our small sacrifices

and our small efforts at evangelization.

Today, we have an incredible saint to talk about St. Josephine Bakita, who really,

really shows us more than anyone that we can trust in God's plan, even when things are hard or confusing,

and that he truly does have a beautiful plan. So here is a little bit about this tremendous saint.

St. Josephine Bakita was born in Sudan in 1869, so she was born about 150 years ago. She was born into a very happy family,

but at the age of seven, she was stolen from her family by Arab slave traitors. So she was taken.

And from that point on, her life was filled with horrible torture

and abuse. And she worked as a slave. In fact, at the beginning, when she was just seven years old,

she was forced to walk 600 miles barefoot. Yes, 600 miles barefoot while being tortured.

When she finally got there, she was sold a couple of times.

She was abused, and in fact, her treatment was so horrible that she forgot her own name.

Can you imagine? So horrible that she forgot her own name. Can you imagine? So horrible that she forgot her own name. In fact,

Bakita, which is a name that she went by eventually, simply means lucky in the language of the people

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