Josephine Bakhita: Episode Two
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Two: The Slave
Suakin, Sudan. 1883. Six long years have passed since Bakhita was abducted from her village. Abused and sold several times, she now finds herself, at the age of fourteen, enslaved by the cruelest people she has ever known. But are her fortunes about to change?
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Bakhita journeys towards God in the face of her abuse at the hands of her cruel mistress. Through her worst years, Bakhita models the Christian response to suffering, keeping constant hope and trust in God, even if she doesn’t know Him yet.
This episode mentions and depicts slavery, including raised voices and intensity, as well as sounds and description of a tattooing. A character slaps another character.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Suak and Sudan 1883. |
| 0:05.4 | Six long years have passed since Bakita was abducted from her village. |
| 0:09.8 | Abused and sold several times, |
| 0:12.2 | she now finds herself at the age of 14, |
| 0:15.0 | enslaved by the cruelest people she has ever known. |
| 0:18.4 | But are her fortunes about to change? |
| 0:30.8 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:32.8 | Josephine Bekita. |
| 0:36.0 | Episode 2, The Slave. |
| 0:41.1 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:51.1 | I take you now, sisters, to my most horrid days of slavery. |
| 0:57.6 | After being bought and sold many times over, I found myself in the house of General Salim Aksoy of the Turkish army. In truth, he was a rather mousy man. The real cruelty came from |
| 1:07.4 | his wife, Ayla. It was this woman who insisted upon my keeping the sarcastic nickname |
| 1:14.0 | that my kidnapper had given to me. Bakita means fortunate, you see. That amused her to no end. |
| 1:25.9 | Bakita! Bakita, come here at once |
| 1:28.8 | Hurry up, girl |
| 1:30.2 | Forgive me, Mistries |
| 1:32.1 | I came as quickly as... |
| 1:33.4 | You've had all morning to complete the task I gave you |
| 1:36.2 | And it appears that you still have much to do |
| 1:38.4 | Why is this? |
| 1:39.7 | Well, I was admiring the son, you see, and I... |
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