Frances Xavier Cabrini

Organization founder

1850 – 1917

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Who was Frances Xavier Cabrini?

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C., 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.

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Born
Jul 15, 1850
Sant'Angelo Lodigiano
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Italy
  • United States of America
Died
Dec 22, 1917
Chicago

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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