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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 was the first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint.
After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, this region because part of the new United States. In 1817, the St. Xavier Chapel was constructed in Alexandria, its first Catholic facility. [3] In 1829, a Reverend Martin of Avoyelles visited Catholics living along the Red, Black and Ouachita rivers in Louisiana.
The old parish church of Saint Francis was constructed in 1817. [3] It was the only building in Alexandria spared during the American Civil War.As the Union army pulled out of the town during the disastrous Red River Campaign, Father J. P. Bellier disguised his voice to impersonate that of General Nathaniel Banks, the Union commanding officer, and ordered the troops to spare the church. [3]
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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]
St. Francis Xavier Parish was established in 1868. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church: built 1907 1991 NRHP-listed ... Old St. Anastasia Catholic School: 1914 built
Original grounds of Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum, circa 1890 Mother Cabrini School, built 1934 and demolished 2017. Saint Cabrini Home (formerly the Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum or the Sacred Heart Orphanage) was an American nonprofit organization in West Park, Ulster County, New York, serving youth with emotional or family difficulties.
St. Francis Xavier School may refer to: St. Francis Xavier School, Burgos in Spain; St. Francis Xavier School, Kolkata in India; St. Francis Xavier School, Vancouver in Canada; St. Francis Xavier's School, Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong; St Francis Xavier School, North Yorkshire in England