{"id":1349,"date":"2018-11-16T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwctt.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2018-11-16T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:14:04","slug":"st-francis-xavier-cabrini-virgin-13-nov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/st-francis-xavier-cabrini-virgin-13-nov\/","title":{"rendered":"St Francis Xavier Cabrini, Virgin – 13 Nov"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of\u00a0thirteen\u00a0children\u00a0raised on a\u00a0farm. She received a\u00a0convent\u00a0education, and training as a\u00a0teacher. She tried to join the order at age 18, but\u00a0poor health prevented her taking the\u00a0veil. A\u00a0priest\u00a0asked her to\u00a0teach\u00a0at a\u00a0girl\u2018s\u00a0school, the\u00a0House of Providence\u00a0Orphanage<\/em>\u00a0in Cadagono,\u00a0Italy, which she did for six years. She took religious vows in\u00a01877, and acquitted herself so well at her work that when the\u00a0orphanage\u00a0closed in\u00a01880, her\u00a0bishop\u00a0asked her to found the\u00a0Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart<\/em>\u00a0to care for\u00a0poor\u00a0children\u00a0in\u00a0schools\u00a0and\u00a0hospitals.\u00a0Pope Leo XIII\u00a0then sent her to the\u00a0United States\u00a0to carry on this mission.<\/p>\n

She and six\u00a0Sisters<\/em>\u00a0arrived in\u00a0New York\u00a0in\u00a01889. They worked among\u00a0immigrants, especially\u00a0Italians.\u00a0Mother Cabrini founded 67 institutions, including\u00a0schools,\u00a0hospitals, and\u00a0orphanages\u00a0in the\u00a0United States,\u00a0Europe and\u00a0South America. Like many of the people she worked with,\u00a0Mother\u00a0became a\u00a0United States\u00a0citizen during her life, and after her\u00a0death\u00a0she was the first\u00a0US\u00a0citizen to be\u00a0canonized.<\/p>\n

She was born on 15 July 1850 at Sant’ Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy and died on 22 December 1917 at Chicago, Illinois, USA of Malaria.\u00a0 She is interred at 701 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York, USA.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Saint\u00a0Frances Xavier Cabrini<\/em><\/p>\n

Inspired by the grace of god, we join the saints in honoring the holy virgin Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was a humble woman who became outstanding not because she was famous or rich or powerful, but because she lived a virtuous life. From the tender years of her youth, she kept her innocence as white as a\u00a0lily\u00a0and preserved it carefully with the thorns of penitence; as the years progressed, she was moved by a certain instinct and supernatural zeal to dedicate her whole life to the service and greater glory of God. She welcomed delinquent youths into safe homes, and taught them to live upright and holy lives. She consoled those who were in prison, and recalled to them the hope of eternal life. She encouraged prisoners to reform themselves, and to live honest lives. She comforted the sick and the infirm in the hospitals, and diligently cared for them. She extended a friendly and helping hand especially to immigrants, and offered them necessary shelter and relief, for having left their homeland behind, they were wandering about in a foreign land with no place to turn for help. Because of their condition, she saw that they were in danger of deserting the practice of Christian virtues and their Catholic faith. Undoubtedly she accomplished all this through the faith which was always so vibrant and alive in her heart; through the divine love which burned within her; and finally, through constant prayer by which she was so closely united with God from whom she humbly asked and obtained whatever her human weakness could not obtain. Although her constitution was very frail, her spirit was endowed with such singular strength that, knowing the will of God in her regard, she permitted nothing to impede her from accomplishing what seemed beyond her strength.\u00a0\u2013 from a homily at the\u00a0Canonization\u00a0of\u00a0Saint\u00a0Frances Xavier Cabrini by\u00a0Pope\u00a0Pius XII<\/em><\/p>\n

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