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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Feastday: November 13
Patron of immigrants
1917

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (Feast day November 13) St. Frances was born in Lombardi, Italy in 1850, one of thirteen children. At eighteen, she desired to become a Nun, but poor health stood in her way. She helped her parents until their death, and then worked on a farm with her brothers and sisters.

One day a priest asked her to teach in a girls' school and she stayed for six years. At the request of her Bishop, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. Then at the urging of Pope Leo XIII she came to the United States with six nuns in 1889 to work among the Italian immigrants.

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, this remarkable woman soon founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in this strange land and saw them flourish in the aid of Italian immigrants and children. At the time of her death, at Chicago, Illinois on December 22, 1917, her institute numbered houses in England, France, Spain, the United States, and South America. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized when she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances is the patroness of immigrants.


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30 Comments

  1. dd
    October 20th, 2008 10:55 am

    i love her

  2. diana
    October 21st, 2008 2:33 pm

    This should have more facts about the person.

  3. montgomery
    October 27th, 2008 5:48 am

    she's nice.

  4. morgan
    October 28th, 2008 3:28 pm

    she is a wonderful person

  5. Melissa
    October 28th, 2008 4:54 pm

    I need more facts

  6. Michelle
    October 30th, 2008 5:43 pm

    she is the saint for my daughters report. I just love her.

  7. frances
    November 1st, 2008 12:09 pm

    she is so awesome

  8. robert
    November 12th, 2008 5:50 pm

    I thought Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first American saint. Yes?

  9. MJ
    November 13th, 2008 6:58 am

    A very interesting saint; she did a lot in her lifetime.

  10. Abby
    November 14th, 2008 3:25 pm

    I'm choosing her as my Conformation saint :] i really love her and all the things she did.

  11. karlz
    December 15th, 2008 3:17 pm

    I'm choosing her as my confirmation name. (: She;s pretty rad.

  12. LILY HERITAGE
    January 7th, 2009 4:42 pm

    she's my saint that helps me alot in what i need through my prayers.

  13. jes
    January 12th, 2009 2:46 pm

    I have faith in this saint :)

  14. Escadoo
    January 28th, 2009 1:59 pm

    I am doing a project on this saint. She's very interesting and it's really neat what she has done for the church.

  15. jared
    February 24th, 2009 2:55 pm

    i am doing a project on this saint Cabrini

  16. Guadalupe
    March 7th, 2009 9:22 pm

    I am an immmigrant in Arizona and our catholic church is St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's! ;) many of the immigrants around this area have been drawn to my church i like to think she helps us in our daily battle to survive in this country where we are constantly reminded that we are unwanted.

  17. March 16th, 2009 3:50 pm

    i am also doing a project, and this is very useful information.

  18. Rachel
    May 17th, 2009 8:22 am

    My partner and I are doing this saint she looks really interesting!!!

  19. saint lover
    July 12th, 2009 10:39 am

    she is an very inspiring women.

  20. ryan
    September 15th, 2009 9:00 am

    this is very useful

  21. ryan
    September 15th, 2009 9:02 am

    very good woman and good info

  22. Emily Jamelarin
    October 20th, 2009 8:07 pm

    she did good things for the children

  23. frances age 8
    October 23rd, 2009 8:05 pm

    she is very nice it is cool that she moved to the US she is one of my role models

  24. Marta-Antonina Christianson
    November 13th, 2009 3:47 am

    Very interesting. I did not know about this lady, Frances Xavier.

  25. Sophie
    November 14th, 2009 6:04 am

    I too want to become a saint like her.

  26. Mary Johnson-Muna
    November 20th, 2009 6:04 pm

    I adopted a child and this is her patron saint. I normally find little information and have not been able to find a statue of her for my daughter.

  27. brycemason
    December 1st, 2009 5:11 pm

    I think that this was very helpful for my report

  28. newyorkmets97
    February 1st, 2010 2:36 pm

    she is an amazing saint this info will really help with my report.

  29. maryen
    April 23rd, 2010 6:18 pm

    i'm choosing her as my conformation saint she was a very brave and good women she is my hero not only because she is the patron of the immigrants but because i have faith in her.

  30. maryen
    April 23rd, 2010 7:12 pm

    thank you for the information it really helped me a lot i don't know what i would do if this website didn't exist.

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