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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.
St. Brigid-St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Academy - It formed from the 2019 merger of the St. Brigid and St. Frances Cabrini schools, with students at St. Brigid. [5] In 2019 it had about 100 students. [6] St. Catherine of Genoa ~ St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Academy; St. Edmund School; St. Ephrem Catholic Academy
Founded in 2014 with the merger of St Thomas Aquinas (1922) and St Elizabeth Ann Seton (1976) Parishes [186] St. Frances Cabrini 325 S. Oxford Valley Rd, Fairless Hills: Founded in 1953 [187] Queen of the Universe 2443 Trenton Rd, Levittown: Original parish founded in 1955, merged with Immaculate Conception Parish (1954) in 2014 [188]
The modern Conwell-Egan was formed in 1993 when the all-girls Bishop Conwell High School was closed and merged into the existing facilities of Bishop Egan High School for Boys in Fairless Hills. [ 2 ]
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]
St. Anselm School (Dearborn Heights) - established in 1955 [62] St. Clare of Montefalco School (Grosse Pointe Park) [63] St. Edith Catholic School [64] St. Frances Cabrini Grade School a.k.a. Cabrini Elementary and Middle School [65] St. John Paul II Classical Catholic School (Lincoln Park) [66]
Around the time the parish was founded, Mother (later Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini obtained 475 acres (1.92 km 2) in the Verdugo Mountains above Burbank (on the present site of Woodbury University). Mother Cabrini built a school, chapel and "preventorium" where girls could learn without fear of catching tuberculosis. She prayed daily in a one ...
St. Donato drew its name from the town of San Donato Val di Comino, Italy, from which many of the residents of the Overbrook-Haddington area had immigrated. The parish celebrates the feast of St. Donato and of St. Frances X. Cabrini on the first Sunday of June. The celebration opens the annual carnival and the feast of Mother Cabrini was added ...