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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).
St. Frances Cabrini Church was a Roman Catholic parish church in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1963 until 2005, when it was extensively damaged by floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. The church was designed in the modernist style by New Orleans architectural firm Curtis and Davis. Their design was intended to facilitate parishioners' participation ...
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 is, on an obvious level, a movie about the anti-Italian animus facing swarthy newcomers to America in the late 19th century.It tells the story of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a Catholic ...
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 ...
Following her death, Mother Cabrini, who had become an American citizen, became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church. Today, she is considered the patron saint ...
The Ursulines have a long history in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.. Arrival of the Ursulines in New Orleans, 1727 (19th century depiction) As early as 1726, King Louis XV of France decided that three Ursuline nuns from Rouen should go to New Orleans to establish a hospital for poor sick people and to provide education for young girls of wealthy families.
In 1892 Mother Cabrini arrived in New Orleans and opened an orphanage which became Cabrini High School in 1959. [6] The Sicilian-American respect for San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph) is reflected in the celebration of the Feast of Saint Joseph, primarily in New Orleans and Buffalo, every March 19.