MOTHER FRANCES CABRINI

BIOGRAPHY

• Born on July 15,1850 Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Province of Lodi.
• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (Francesca Saveria Cabrini) or Mother Cabrini
• Died on December 22,1917 (aged 67).
• Youngest out of 11
• Canonized on July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII.

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• Feast Day on December 22, on her death day.
• Was an Italian religious sisters
• Founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
• > A Catholic religious institution that support the Italian immigration to the U.S
• First naturalized citizen of the U.S to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church

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• After attending a school for 5yrs run by the Daughter of the Sacred Heart
• > She graduated with a teaching certificate
• After her parents died, she applied the Daughters of the Sacred Heart
• > Daughter of the Sacred Hear (a religious congregation)
• > the sisters there, even her own teacher told her she was too frail for their life

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• She became the headmistress of the House of Providence Orphanage in Codogno
• > Where she taught and drew a community of woman live a religious way of life
• After Cabrini took religious vows in 1877
• > Added Xavier to her name to honor the Jesuit Saint Fracis Xavier
• >Saint Fracis Xavier was the Parton Saint of missionary service

PATRONAGE

• Immigration
• Hospital administration
• religious institute
• Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará

HAGIOGRAPHY

• At 18 she desired to be a nun
• Healed a terminally ill memeber of her congregation
• Restoring a blind child eyesight
• She taught and took care of poor children in schools and hospitals

QUOTES

• “I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those
• who do not know him or have forgotten Him.” (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin and Foundress)
• “We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material
• success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human
• industries, but on Jesus alone.” (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin and Foundress)

PRAYER

• "FORTIFY me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit and give Your peace to my soul that I may be free
• from all needless anxiety, solicitude and worry. Help me to desire always that which is pleasing
• and acceptable to You so that Your will may be my will."

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QUESTIONS

TRUE OF FALSE

• She was born in July
• She cured a child eyesight
• She was born in Italy

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• She is the patrones of ____
• She had ____ siblings