ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI (1850 - 1917) Religious, Founder Feastday - November 13 She was born prematurely in Lombardy, Italy, and baptized Francesca. She fervently desired to be a missionary ever since she was a young girl. After applying to become religious in several communities and being turned down due to frail health, she stayed home and took care of her parents till their death. A priest asked her to teach young girls in a school which she did for six years. She was then advised by the bishop to start a religious community herself. With this admonition, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. This congregation received approval from Rome In 1889, Pope Leo XIII asked her to go to the United States to care for the Italian immigrants. Just some month after arriving in the U.S., Mother Cabrini had already opened an orphanage and a school. She became a naturalized U.S. in 1909. At the time of her death there were 67 houses of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in England, France, Spain, and South Africa and the U.S. She died of dysentery complications on December 22, 1917, while preparing Christmas candies for the poor children. She was canonized on June 7, 1946, the first American citizen to be proclaimed Saint. She was buried in the Mother Cabrini High School Chapel in New York and most of her relics are still kept there. Photos: 1) St. Frances Cabrini 2) At age 10 with her dog 3) Inspired by the Sacred Heart to care for immigrants. 4) Relic of her arm bone 5)-6) Relics in the Cabrini Museum
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