Mother Cabrini 💓The Immigrant Saint

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Mother Cabrini: The Immigrant Saint

Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 - December 22, 1917), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun.
She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States.
She was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946. (Elizabeth Ann Seton later became the first native-born U.S. citizen to be canonized.)

Beatified:   Nov 13, 1938,  by Pope Pius XI
Canonized: July 7, 1946,  by Pope Pius XII

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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was born as Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850 in Sant' Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy. She was born two months premature and the youngest of thirteen children. Unfortunately, only three of her siblings survived past adolescence and Frances would live most of her life in a fragile and delicate state of health.

Frances became dedicated to living a life for religious work from a young age and received a convent education at a school ran by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. She graduated with high honors and a teaching certificate.

When Frances was 18, she applied for admission to the religious congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart, but was turned down because of her poor health. Instead, a priest asked her to teach at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadagono, Italy. She taught at the girls' school for six years and drew a community of women in to live the religious way of life.
In 1877, she became Mother Cabrini after she finally made her vows and took the religious habit, also adding Xavier to her name in honor of St. Francis Xavier.
When the House of Providence Orphanage closed, her bishop asked her, along with six other women from her orphanage in Cadagono, to found the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for the poor children in both schools and hospitals. Frances composed the Rule and Constitution for the religious institute.
In its first five years, the institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery. Frances wanted to continue her mission in China, but Pope Leo XIII urged her to go to the United States, a nation that was becoming flooded with Italian immigrants who needed her help. "Not to the East, but the West," was his advice to her.

On March 31, 1889, Frances arrived in New York City along with six other sisters ready to begin her new journey. However, right from the beginning she encountered many disappointments and hardships. The house originally attended for her new orphanage was no longer available, but Frances did not give up, even though the archbishop insisted she return to Italy.

After she refused, Archbishop Michael Corrigan found them housing with the convent of the Sisters of Charity. Frances then received permission to found an orphanage in what is now West Park, New York and now known as Saint Cabrini Home. 

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, Frances founded 67 institutions, including orphanages, schools, and hospitals, within 35 years dedicated to caring for the poor, uneducated, sick, abandoned, and especially for the Italian immigrants. Her institutions were spread out in places all over the United States, including New York, Colorado, and Illinois.

Frances was known for being as resourceful as she was prayerful. She was always able to find people to donate their money, time, and support for her institutions.

In 1909, Frances became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Eight years later, on December 22, 1917, Frances passed at the age of 67, due to complications from dysentery at the Columbus Hospital, one of her own hospitals, in Chicago, Illinois.

Frances' body was originally placed at the Saint Cabrini Home, but was exhumed in 1931 as part of her canonization process. Her head is preserved in Rome at the chapel of the congregation's international mother-house. One of her arms is at the national shrine in Chicago, and the rest of her body rests at a shrine in New York.

Frances has two miracles attributed to her. She restored sight to a child who was believed to have been blinded by excess silver nitrate, and she healed a terminally ill member of her congregation.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI and canonized by Pope Pius XII on July 7, 1946, making her the first United States citizen to be canonized. Her feast day is celebrated on November 13 and she is the patron saint of immigrants.

Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In November 1880, she and six other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.). Cabrini composed the Rule and Constitutions of the religious institute, and she continued as its superior general until her death. The sisters took in orphans and foundlings, opened a day school to help pay expenses, started classes in needlework and sold their fine embroidery to earn a little more money. The institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery in its first five years. Its good works brought Cabrini to the attention of (the now Blessed) Giovanni Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, and of Pope Leo XIII.

Cabrini organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for the needs of the many orphans. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds. She was as resourceful as she was prayerful, finding people who would donate what she needed in money, time, labor, and support. In New York City, she founded Columbus Hospital, which merged with Italian Hospital to become Cabrini Medical Center from 1973 until its closure in 2008.

In Chicago, the sisters opened Columbus Extension Hospital (later renamed Saint Cabrini Hospital) in the heart of the city's Italian neighborhood on the Near West Side. Both hospitals eventually closed near the end of the 20th century. Their foundress' name lives on in Chicago's Cabrini Street.

She founded 67 institutions: in New York; Chicago and Des Plaines, Illinois; Seattle; New Orleans; Denver and Golden, Colorado; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; and in countries throughout Latin America and Europe. Long after her death, the Missionary Sisters would achieve Cabrini's goal of being missionaries to China. In only a short time, after much social and religious upheaval there, the Sisters left China and, subsequently, a Siberian placement.

Feastday:   November 13
Patron:      of Immigrants, Hospital Administrators

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Written and directed by Lucia Mauro, is a new expository documentary film about the First American Citizen Saint's expansive mission of humanity and care for those in need around the world.

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Mother Cabrini Documentary
By Colin Costello - Aug 28, 2017

Filmmaker Lucia Mauro has wrapped filming on her third film, a documentary titled “Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People’s Saint,” in honor of the first American citizen saint’s 100th anniversary.

Filming took place over the summer in Mother Cabrini’s native Italy (Milan, Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Codogno, Rome) and in Chicago, where Mother Cabrini founded hospitals and schools.

The documentary follows on the heels of Lucia’s feature, “One Year Later,” about a cancer survivor who takes a life-affirming trip to the Italian Alps one year after completing cancer treatment.

According to Mauro, the doc presents a living portrait of the Italy-born humanitarian that showcases her relevance and global reach in an ever-changing world.

“The Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators is explored as a fearless, roll-up-her-sleeves woman who, despite frail health, traveled the world at the turn of the 20th century to serve the less fortunate,” she says.

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This sensitive and topical 50-minute documentary, titled Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People's Saint, held its world premiere on November 26, 2017 at Santa Cabrini Hospital in Montreal, QC, Canada, in conjunction with the dedication of the hospital's Chapel to Mother Cabrini by the Archbishop of Montreal, Monsignor Christian Lepine. It received its U.S. premiere on December 5, 2017 at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, sponsored by Cabrini University's Wolfington Center in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. The Chicago premiere was on February 6, 2018 at Loyola University Chicago. Filming took place in Italy and in Chicago over the summer 2017 -- Mother Cabrini's Centenary year. 

The film explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini – the Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators -- in honor of the Centenary of her passing. It reintroduces audiences to the first American citizen saint and addresses her relevance today for refugees and immigrants around the world. Mother Cabrini -- despite frail health and a fear of water -- crossed the ocean many times to administer to the poor, the sick and children and established schools, hospitals, and safe havens across Europe and the Americas. Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People's Saint begins in her birthplace of Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Italy and takes viewers through her tireless commitment to serve those in need in the U.S. and around the world. Mother Cabrini spent her final days at Chicago's former Columbus Hospital in Lincoln Park. In 2012, it reopened as The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. She embraced and overcame great challenges in her mission and is the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Includes enlightening interviews with author-scholar Achille Mascheroni, Sr. Joan McGlinchey, MSC, Sr. Bridget Zanin, MSC, Father Richard Fragomeni, artist Meo Carbone, architect Christopher Payne, Sr. Maria Regina Canale, MSC, youth ministers from the Archdiocese of Chicago, and new immigrants establishing strong faith communities. With a special appearance by Il Grande Coro di Roma, conducted by Fabrizio Adriano Neri and filmed live in Rome performing an original hymn composed by Enzo De Rosa exclusively for this film.

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Enzo De Rosa's original soundtrack is available on iTunes.

The film has screened at St. Ita Catholic Church, St. Peter's Catholic Church in the Loop, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Assumption Catholic Church (where Mother Cabrini prayed and established Assumption School) in Chicago, St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Old Mill Creek, Illinois, St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington (where Mother Cabrini received her American citizenship in 1909 and founded a school, orphanage and hospital), St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in Yucaipa, California in honor of the parish's 70th anniversary, for the Italian Catholic Federation's Annual Mass & Pilgrimage at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Burbank, California, St. Jerome Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida during its Spanish-language Novena to Mother Cabrini, for St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church at Gross Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska in honor of Mother Cabrini's Feast Day, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 -- the historic port of entry for immigrants to Canada between 1928 and 1971 -- in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

It has toured Italy, with screenings held at l'Auditorium della Banca Popolare di Lodi in Lodi (the province of Mother Cabrini's birth town) sponsored by l'Associazione Missione Cabriniana Oggi Onlus and la Parrocchia di Sant'Antonio Abbate e Santa Francesca Saverio Cabrini; in Milan at the Convent of the Sisters of Charity of the Assumption; and in Rome at the Church of San Tommaso Moro sponsored by Fondazione Migrantes and We the Italians magazine. The documentary was selected for a special showing by the Lincoln Park Community Research Initiative at Chicago's DePaul University, and was presented at Chicago's National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini followed by the unveiling of a City of Chicago Tribute Marker to Mother Cabrini. It was shown in honor of Mother Cabrini's birthday at The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, and during Epiphany at the Felician Sisters Convent in Chicago. Other venues include Chicago's Lakeview Condo Association, The Clare Independent Senior Living, at 2550 N. Lakeview, the condominium that was formerly Columbus Hospital (which Mother Cabrini founded in 1905); and Sheffield Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Dyer, Indiana; as well as Casa Italia Chicago's Italian Film Series.

The film was chosen as an Official Selection at the 2018 Catholic Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, and broadcast in its entirety by the Catholic Peace Broadcasting Company, Korea's major Catholic TV Channel.

Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People's Saint (in English and Italian, with subtitles in Spanish and French) is currently touring the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Americas with the goal of sharing Mother Cabrini's timeless humanitarian message.

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 
~ Mother Cabrini ~

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Cabrini

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Cabrini, a biopic of the Patron Saint of Immigrants, tells a story of resilience in the face of resistance. After an Italian nun moves to Five Points in New York City, Francesca Cabrini fights against the Archbishop, mayor, and overt xenophobia to build an orphanage for impoverished Italian-Americans. With entrepreneurship, grit, and boldness, Cabrini creates a home full of compassion and a legacy that’s everlasting. The film stars Cristiana Dell'Anna (The Hand of God, The King of Laughter) who plays the lead role of Francesca Cabrini. David Morse (The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker) plays Archbishop Corrigan and John Lithgow (The Crown, Dexter) plays Mayor Gould.

Mother Cabrini 📽 Movie (2019)

Mother Cabrini
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A movie on the life of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

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At the end of the 19th century, Italy is witnessing an epoch-making phenomenon of migration towards America. The young nun Frances Xavier Cabrini is asked by the Church to devote herself and her nuns to this new mission and leave for New York. Frances is perplexed: accepting would mean giving up her dream of being a missionary to the East. After a difficult process, Frances accepts the mission to the New York. But once in New York, she finds none of what has been promised.

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Mother Cabrini (2019)   Running time:  100 min.
Country: Italy
Director / Screenwriter:  Daniela Gurrieri
Cast:   Douglas Dean, Flaminia Fegarotti, Cristina Odasso, Alexia Turchi, Chiara Catalano, Anna Mallamaci, Vania Castelfranchi
Producer: Cristiana Video. Distributed by EWTN [USA]
Genre: Drama | Biography. Religion. 19th Century

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Who would have thought, seeing the photo of this little girl that she would one day become saintly?

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Mother Cabrini EWTN Original Movie

EWTN’s Original Movie
 “Mother Cabrini” 
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She was a woman who admired St. Francis Xavier so much that she added his name to hers when she became a nun. She was a religious who dreamed of imitating her namesake by traveling east to China as a missionary. Instead, she would go west to the United States as soon as she understood that this is where God wanted her to go.

She was the foundress of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who crossed an ocean in the expectation of staffing an orphanage, a school and a hospital. Instead, she arrived in New York to find a rat-infested tenement and many Italian immigrants who were not only living in horrible conditions, but who had lost their faith because there were almost no clergy or religious who spoke their language to help them.

She was Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint and the subject of a fascinating EWTN Original Movie, “Mother Cabrini” .

Daniela Gurrieri of CRISTIANA Video, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the movie with her husband Fabio Carini, says she and her husband were not interested in simply chronicling the more than 67 schools, orphanages, and hospitals Mother Cabrini founded in America and around the world. Instead, the filmmakers wanted to tell the audience about the way Mother Cabrini overcame all the unexpected obstacles that she encountered.

That decision is what makes the film so dramatic and what makes Mother Cabini such a compelling figure. Gurrieri says her problem was not in finding obstacles, but in editing them down to a manageable few.

One of the big obstacles – the Italian immigrants’ crisis of faith – was something with which Mother Cabrini and her nuns were familiar. The nuns came to the U.S. from northern Italy, where the scourge of freemasonry was rampant.

“In that period in Italy, the people felt this big clash, the opposition of ethics, of the freemasons against the Pope,” Gurrieri said. “She witnessed, on one hand, the growth of atheism and also of this attitude of hate against the Church, against Jesus Christ, against God and against the priests and the nuns. On the other, she witnessed great love and support of the Church, which had been so attacked. She was used to this kind of opposition. She felt a great danger in the growth of a culture against faith, against the Church, and against life.”

As the film shows, Mother Cabrini and her nuns would be responsible for bringing many people back to the Faith.
Another reason Gurrieri was interested in doing a film on Mother Cabrini is that her life was so adventurous and challenging.

“She was the first to found [a group of nuns who were] independent of any institution or congregation,” Gurrieri said. “Women in Italy didn’t have any freedom at that time. They were not allowed to have a job. They were not allowed to sign contracts. They were not allowed to manage any kind of property. She did all these things. She traveled alone. She bought houses and hospitals. She was very much in relationship with the Pope, many Cardinals, and the bishops, but she was never dependent on them.”

Mother Cabrini was inspired by the love of God for her brothers and sisters in need — whatever their ethnic background – and always sought to show respect for the dignity of each person, no matter how badly they treated her or her nuns. Following her death on Dec. 22, 1917, Gurrieri says, “the Pope received more than 150,000 reports of miracles from people all over the world.” She was canonized on July 7, 1946.

“I will feel satisfied if this movie inspires great confidence in God and in making the gifts that God gives us bear more fruit,” Gurrieri said. “I will feel satisfied if [this movie helps people understand] that even if society tells us we are weak — because we are women, or weak because we are immigrants, or weak because of whatever does not make us comfortable – that can be overcome. The only thing we need is God, [who taught us in the person of Jesus] to live our life at the service of others.”

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