She was born in Sudan, Africa. She was the member of Daju people and her uncle is a tribal chef.
Due to her family lineage, she was born as a happy and relatively prosperous girl, she did not know suffering.
However, sometimes life is full of surprise. When she's about 8 years old, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. This is where her tribulation and sufferings began.
She was bought and sold twice in her gruelling journey. For the next 12 years, she was bought and sold dozen times until she forgot her original name.
As slave, she experienced vary from fair treatment to cruel. Long short story, she was bought by Italian vice consul and when it's time for this Italian consul to return to Italy, she begged him to follow him to Italy because this owner never give bad treatment to her.
After arriving in Italy, she was given to other family and worked as a nanny.
And when this family needed to travel to Sudan, she was placed in custody of the Canossian sisters in Venice. There, she came to learn about God. She was moved deeply by her time with the sisters and discerned a call to follow Christ.
When her mistress returned and wanted to bring her back, she refused and the case went to the court. In the end, she was declared free for the first time in her life.
She remained at Canossian Sisters, was babtised there and took her vow.
For the next 42 years of her life, she worked as a cook and door keeper at the convent. She also traveled and visited other convents telling her story and preparing them for work in Africa.
When speaking of her enslavement, she often professed she would thank her kidnapers. For she had not been kidnapped, she won't know Jesus Christ.
In her later years, she began to suffer physical pain and was forced to use a wheelchair. But she always remained cheerful. If anyone asked her how she was, she would reply "As the master desires".
Her last words before she died was "Our Lady, Our Lady."
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