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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.
Cabrini University was a private Catholic university in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. [3] It was founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1957, and was named after the first American naturalized citizen saint, Mother Frances Cabrini .
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]
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 ...
On December 3, 2020, William McCandless, a member of the Wilmington-based religious order Oblates de St. Francis De Sales who was formerly assigned to DeSales University in Lehigh County, was charged in Philadelphia for possession of child pornography. [31] Much of McCandless' child pornography was imported from overseas. [32]
St. Donato School – Merged into St. Frances Cabrini School in 2012. [2] St. Edmond School Circa 1975, it had 1,064 students. In 1999, it had 222 students. It closed in 1999. [89] St. Gabriel School – Greys Ferry It became Our Lady of the Angels School in 1999 after a consolidation with two other schools. [89]
Founded in 2011 through merger of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Ecorse and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in River Rouge; operates at the former St. Francis Xavier Church [179] St. Constance 21555 Kinyon St., Taylor [180] St. Frances Cabrini 9000 Laurence Ave., Allen Park [181] St. Mary Magadalen 19624 Wood St.,Melvindale
Due to declining church membership, the need to redraw parish boundaries, and a need to pool resources—five Catholic churches in the coal-mining region of Pennsylvania were consolidated in 1995 into the new Mother Cabrini parish. [22] [c] St. Edward's parish, which was central to the five churches, was renamed the Mother Cabrini parish for ...