SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER CABRINI
Feast:
November 13 (December 22, pre-1970)
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Born:
July 15, 1850 Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Province of Lodi, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire
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Died:
December 22, 1917 (aged 67)
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Beatified:
November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI
Canonized:
July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII
Patronage:
Immigrants and Hospital Administrators
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Major shrine:
Chapel of Mother Cabrini High School, New York City
SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER CABRINI
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C. (Italian: Francesca Saveria Cabrini), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian Religious Sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States. She was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church (July 7, 1946).