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  2. Francis Xavier - Wikipedia

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    Francis Xavier is the patron saint of his native Navarre, ... The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506–1552 Coleridge, ...

  3. Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia

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    Her heart went to Codogno and her arm bone to the National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in Chicago. The sisters sent the rest of her remains to the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine in New York City. [29] Citing the Smith and Grazioli cures, Pope Pius XI beatified Cabrini on November 13, 1938. Smith, now a priest, attended the ceremony.

  4. Patron saints of places - Wikipedia

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    Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]

  5. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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    The homeless - Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Thérèse of Lisieux; Homemakers - Andrew the Apostle [8] Horsemen - George; Horticulture - Dorothea of Caesarea, Fiacre; Hosiers - Fiacre; Hospital administrators - Basil the Great, Frances Xavier Cabrini; Hospital public relations - Paul the Apostle; Hospital workers - Camillus of Lellis, [22 ...

  6. Xaverian Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier. The institute is dedicated to education.

  7. Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    McNamara selected St. Raymond's church as the cathedral. By 1950, the 540-seat church proved inadequate and he began planning a new facility. He consecrated the new Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus on May 26, 1955. [7] In 1965, Pope Paul VI appointed Romeo Blanchette of Chicago as an auxiliary bishop in Joliet.

  9. National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia

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    St. Francis Cabrini Shrine, Lincoln Park, Chicago. The National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini is a shrine in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, honoring the Roman Catholic saint who ministered there, Frances Xavier Cabrini. It was originally part of the now-demolished Columbus Hospital, which she founded in 1905, and ...