I was watching a movie on ESPN last night about a black saint from Somalia who was captured for a slave as a 6 yr old child. She was forced to walk hundreds of miles and treated brutally, and yes, she was captured by Arabs and forcibly converted to Islam. She was horribly scarred by them.
After many years she was taken in by Catholics and became a nun and became was declared an African Saint. Her name was Bakhita.
I thought the Templers were Pagans?
The priest mentioned her today at Mass but said she was from the Sudan. I think Somalia must be right because that was an Italian colony and she ended up in Italy. She died in 1947 and was canonized in 2000.