The first American citizen to be proclaimed a saint of the Roman Catholic Church,
Francesca Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) was born in Italy.
After serving as a nurse and a teacher in her native country, and seeing the miserable
conditions under which so many orphans lived, she became a nun and was appointed
superior of the orphanage at Codogno.
Known thereafter as Mother Cabrini, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred
Heart in 1880 and established a number of other schools and orphanages.
Nine years later she and six of her nuns landed in New York, where they had been sent
to help the Italian immigrants. She went on to establish orphanages, schools, and
hospitals in many American cities, as well as in Europe and South America.
She was canonized on July 7, 1946, and her feast day is December 22.
St. Frances Cabrini's feast day is commemorated in many places, but particularly at
Mother Cabrini High School in New York City, in whose chapel she is buried.
November 13, the day on which she was beatified, is also observed at every establishment of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
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