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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 a prominent Italian-American, Catholic who was a religious sister.
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]
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 ...
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.
Shrine to Mother Cabrini and Jesus Nazareno. Work on the stained glass windows that enclose either aisle began in 1928 and continued into the 1940s. [12] They show scenes from the lives of the saints, the catechism, and the Gospel; in particular, the saints are shown in such a way that illustrates each of the Beatitudes with which they are ...
Around the time the parish was founded, Mother (later Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini obtained 475 acres (1.92 km 2) in the Verdugo Mountains above Burbank (on the present site of Woodbury University). Mother Cabrini built a school, chapel and "preventorium" where girls could learn without fear of catching tuberculosis. She prayed daily in a one ...