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Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini. New York: McGraw Hill, 1960. De Maria, Mother Saverio. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. Translated by Rose Basile Green. Chicago: Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1984. Travels of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini: Foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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).
That same year, Di Donato published The Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini, a fictionalized account of Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first United States citizen to be canonized. It was well-received, and named a main selection of the Catholic Book Club and Maryknoll Book Club in 1961.
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 ...
Mother Cabrini—today known to Catholics as the patron saint of immigrants—exemplified the entrepreneurialism of her adopted land. "We are bold or we die," she says near the end of the movie ...
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 ...
Citizen Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini is a 1947 film about a Catholic saint. It was directed by Harold Young. It was produced by Clyde Elliott Attractions. [1] It is about Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian woman who becomes a nun and is eventually sainted. [2] The film includes songs. [3]