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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Five: The Fortunate One

Bakhita’s faith has grown in her months with the Canossian Sisters. She’s learned to pray, and has even begun the difficult task of forgiving her tormentors. But when she refuses Maria’s demand that she return to Africa, her faith is put to the test, and she faces the greatest trial of her life.

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Bakhita demonstrates commitment to God’s will, even when her friend goes against it. 37 years later, the now-Mother Bakhita has fully forgiven her former captors, exemplifying Christian charity and peace. Going beyond herself, she teaches Sister Lucia to forgive Mother Dolorosa as well.

Some moments of intensity, including discussions of slavery. Moments of emotional intensity and raised voices between former friends.

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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Four: The House of God

Bakhita and little Mimmina arrive at the Institute of the Catechumens’ convent school in Venice. She still seeks the Maker of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, longing to find and know Him. But when Maria returns from Sudan, Bakhita is faced with a choice...

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Bakhita’s hope turns to joy as she visits the convent of the Canossian sisters. Joy is added to joy as she receives instruction in the faith. Bakhita finds true freedom for the first time in God’s love, and moves toward forgiving her tormentors.

This episode contains raised voices, incidental mentions of slavery, tattooing, and violence. An atheistic character speaks disparagingly about the faith.

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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Three: The Servant

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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🗺️ 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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🚦 Rating: 7+

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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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode One:The Awestruck Child

Turin, Italy, 1935. The normally quiet convent of Canossian religious sisters is in an uproar. A special visitor has arrived, a fellow sister born in faraway Sudan, in northeast Africa. She has come to relate the amazing story of her life. But can the sisters find her? This is the story of Josephine Bakhita.

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Mother Bakhita demonstrates forgiveness and love for the poor. She tells us of her childhood, where she grew up in a loving and happy family, talking honestly with her parents about her yearning to know the maker of the stars.

This episode includes some minor arguments between a religious sister and her superior. There are also moments of intensity and fear as a character is kidnapped.

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🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Five: The New Bishop

Savoy, France. 1599. Francis and Louis' mission to the Chablais region has been a stunning success. His writings against the Calvinist heresy have won tens of thousands back to the Church! Home once again, they face new challenges - ones that will change Francis's life forever.

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Francis de Sales was a brilliant mind and compassionate heart devoted to God. Against his parents’ wishes, Francis became a priest with the help of his dear cousin Louis. Together, they courageously ministered to those estranged from the church in the Chablais region, winning souls with his gentle, persistent charity and the use of technology. His story is a timeless example of courage, charity, and perseverance.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity. Religious persecution is depicted. A street duel is depicted in which no one is harmed. Priests are beaten by a hostile crowd. Voices are raised with anti-Catholic rhetoric. Religious wars are discussed.

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🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Four: Winning Back Souls

Savoy, France. 1594. Francis and his cousin, Father Louis, head into the Chablais region on a risky mission from their Bishop: bringing the light of the Catholic faith to those blinded by Calvinism! Warned about the dangers they’ll face, they find a welcome worse than anyone had imagined.

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Francis de Sales was a brilliant mind and compassionate heart devoted to God. Against his parents’ wishes, Francis became a priest with the help of his dear cousin Louis. Together, they courageously ministered to those estranged from the church in the Chablais region, winning souls with his gentle, persistent charity and the use of technology. His story is a timeless example of courage, charity, and perseverance.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity. Religious persecution is depicted. A street duel is depicted in which no one is harmed. Priests are beaten by a hostile crowd. Voices are raised with anti-Catholic rhetoric. Religious wars are discussed.

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🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Three: To the Chablais

Savoy, France. 1592. Francis's desire to spend his life in the service of the Church is about to become a reality. But when it does, a new challenge faces him, one that ultimately endangers his life.

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Francis de Sales was a brilliant mind and compassionate heart devoted to God. Against his parents’ wishes, Francis became a priest with the help of his dear cousin Louis. Together, they courageously ministered to those estranged from the church in the Chablais region, winning souls with his gentle, persistent charity and the use of technology. His story is a timeless example of courage, charity, and perseverance.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity. Religious persecution is depicted. A street duel is depicted in which no one is harmed. Priests are beaten by a hostile crowd. Voices are raised with anti-Catholic rhetoric. Religious wars are discussed.

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