St. Josephine Bakhita - Exclusive Restored Photo! - Vintage Catholic Art Easter Artwork and then we took a

and then we took a lot of time restoring them

St Matthew (former tax collector)

That's what draws our eye to this painting and makes it one of our all-time favorite Visitation pictures

We love the softness and delicacy of Mary here

St. Josephine Bakhita - Exclusive Restored Photo! - Vintage Catholic Art Easter Artwork and then we took aCaptured and enslaved, tormented and abused, St. Josephine Bakhita (1869 1947) nevertheless shone with the Love of Christ. Born in Darfur, Sudan, she was kidnapped by slave traders as a young girl. The experience was so terrible and traumatic, she forgot her name. Her captors gave her the name Bakhita, which in Arabic means lucky. After twelve years in slavery, she was given her freedom and went to Italy, where she took up with a young Catholic