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Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint.
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).
Frances Xavier Cabrini. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) known during her life as Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
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 ...
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.
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]
Cristiana Dell’Anna plays Mother Francesca Cabrini in the film, “Cabrini,” which was fifth on the top 10 movie box office list last weekend.
The first "American" saint was canonized during his pontificate, when Mother Cabrini, an Italian born nun with American citizenship, was raised to sainthood in St. Peter's Basilica. [11] Pius also accelerated the canonization of other Americans, including American born Mother Seton of Emmitsburg , Maryland , founder of the Sisters of Charity.