“I would kiss their hands…” All Schio was in mourning when Sr. Josephine Bakhita died of pneumonia on February 8, 1947

“I would kiss their hands…” All Schio was in mourning when Sr. Josephine Bakhita died of pneumonia on February 8, 1947. Her life had truly become “fortunate,” as she said herself: “If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I would not be a Christian and a religious today.”