St. Josephine Bakhita

Read a beautiful story about how this saint inspired a white supremacist murderer on death row to become a devout Catholic who now leads other prisoners to raise money for children in Sudan.

Added on January 12:
I'm reading "Spe Salvi", Pope Benedict's encyclical on hope and came across a beautiful passage about St. Josephine:

He tells about her horrible encounters with cruel masters since she was 9 years old, and then...

"Up to that time she had known only masters who despised and maltreated her, or at best considered her a useful slave. Now, however, she heard that there is a “paron” above all masters, the Lord of all lords, and that this Lord is good, goodness in person. She came to know that this Lord even knew her, that he had created her—that he actually loved her. She too was loved, and by none other than the supreme “Paron”, before whom all other masters are themselves no more than lowly servants. She was known and loved and she was awaited. What is more, this master had himself accepted the destiny of being flogged and now he was waiting for her “at the Father's right hand”. Now she had “hope” —no longer simply the modest hope of finding masters who would be less cruel, but the great hope: “I am definitively loved and whatever happens to me—I am awaited by this Love. And so my life is good.”