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Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
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November 13, 2020Today is the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patroness of Cabrini High School on New Orleans where she had founded an orphanage to minister to the children of New Orleans.She was born in Italy, the youngest of 13 children, and became a schoolteacher. In 1880 she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. The order spread rapidly from northern Italy to Rome, and then in 1889 to New York City, where Mother Cabrini became famous for her work among Italian immigrants before moving to New Orleans to minister to the Italian immigrants settling in the French Quarter and MidCity area. Before dying of malaria in Chicago, she had opened schools, orphanages and hospitals around the United States, South America and Europe. In 1946, Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized; she is the universal patron of immigrants.St. Frances Cabrini, pray for us!
