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Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the first American to be recognized as a saint.
Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American, Catholic, religious sister (nun).
Cabrini took religious vows in 1877 and added Xavier (Saverio) to her name to honor the Jesuit saint, Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionary service. When the orphanage closed in 1880, Cabrini and seven other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.). [ 1 ]
Mother Cabrini certainly must have been a saint, whether in the Catholic definition, the Protestant use of the term as any born-again Christian or the way I remember people describing a person who ...
Born in 1850, Mother Cabrini repeatedly asked the pope for permission to go to China to minister to the poor. Instead, the pope sent her and seven other nuns to America to serve Italian immigrants.
Frances Xavier Cabrini Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) known during her life as Mother Cabrini , was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church .
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When Oscar-winning producer Jonathan Sanger was first pitched “Cabrini,” the story of the first American saint, he wasn’t quite sure he was right for the project. “I said, ‘I think it ...