"When a person loves another very much, she greatly wished to meet that person. Why then should I be afraid of death? Death brings us to God."
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Quoted in "Goodness and missionary zeal", The Holy See.
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Josephine Bakhita
Josephine Margaret Bakhita (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian nun who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000 she was declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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