Josephine Bakhita: Episode Three
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Ligurian coast. 1885. On a fine spring day in Genoa, sixteen year old Bakhita steps onto Italian soil, and tastes freedom for the first time since her abduction. What fortune awaits her in this foreign land? And will she ever be truly free?
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Arriving in Italy, Bakhita is finally treated with kindness. She exemplifies perseverance and hope. Most importantly, she meets Illuminato Checchini, who introduces her to the master of the moon and the stars and gives her a crucifix.
This episode includes incidental mentions of slavery.
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| 0:00.0 | The Ligurian Coast, 1885. |
| 0:05.0 | On a fine spring day in Genoa, 16-year-old Bakita steps onto Italian soil and tastes freedom for the first time since her abduction. |
| 0:15.0 | What fortune awaits her in this foreign land, and will she ever be truly free? |
| 0:32.2 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:37.0 | Josephine Bakita, Episode 3, The Servant. |
| 0:41.9 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:58.0 | It was mid-April when I first set foot on Italian soil sisters and breathing in the scent of genoa wildflowers, I felt in my bones that my life was somehow beginning anew. |
| 1:03.0 | Rickety Buggy took Signore Lanyani and myself to a nearby inn where I was to meet two very important people. |
| 1:14.9 | Whoa, whoa! Pinching pennies, Leniani. It got us here unscathed. Oh, pity. I'd have made out like a king on the business insurance. |
| 1:30.4 | It's good to see you, Augusto. And you. And you. And please ignore my husband's jest about the insurance, Callisto. |
| 1:41.2 | Maria, what a lovely surprise. I was far too curious to meet the girl you wrote of. |
| 1:48.0 | Of course, where are my manners? |
| 1:50.0 | Bakita? |
| 1:52.0 | Ah! |
| 1:53.0 | This is my good friend and business partner Augusto Michelli. |
| 1:57.0 | Bonjourno, young lady. |
| 1:59.0 | And his dear Russian wife, Maria. |
| 2:02.6 | Bonjourno, signore, signora. |
| 2:04.6 | Bakita. |
| 2:05.6 | Hmm. |
| 2:06.6 | Bakita. |
| 2:07.6 | That's very pretty. |
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