In Schio (Vicenza), where she spent many years of her life, everyone still calls her «our Black Mother». The process for the cause of Canonization began 12 years after her death and on December 1^st, 1978 the Church proclaimed the Decree of the heroic pratice of all virtues.
Divine Providence which «cares for the flowers of the fields ans the birds of the air», guided the Sudanese slave through innumerable and unspeakable sufferings to human freedom and to the freedom of faith and finally to the consecration of her whole life to God for the coming of his Kingdom.

Bakhita was not the name she received from her parents at birth. The fright and the terrible experiences she went through made her forget the name she was given by her parents. Bakhita, which means «fortunate», was the name given to her by her kidnappers.
Sold and resold in the markets of El Obeid and of Khartoum, she experienced the humiliations and sufferings of slavery, both physical and moral.