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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Friendship Between MLK and MD who Saved Him

Inside the Friendship Between
MLK Jr. and the Surgeon
Who Saved Him

Dr. Emil A. Naclerio, member of the surgical team that operated on the Rev. Martin Luther King, at King’s bedside in Harlem Hospital in New York on Sept. 21, 1958.

 

(Dr. Naclerio was an Attending Physician at Columbus Hospital /Cabrini Medical Center)

The operation to remove the 7-inch piece of steel was overseen by Dr. Aubre Maynard, the hospital's chief surgeon, and performed by Dr. Emil Naclerio  and Dr. John W.V. Cordice.

By Larry Celona and Max Jaeger

September 19, 2018

Rev. King, stabbed by Izola Ware Curry as he appeared at a Harlem Department store on September 20, was still on the critical list after an operation.
  
As the nation prepares for the 50th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of the civil rights icon, his 1958 stabbing has been largely forgotten, although he said on the eve of his death a decade later, that had he merely sneezed, it would have killed him. 

The tip of Curry’s blade, King said, was on the edge of his aorta, “And once that’s punctured, you’re drowned in your own blood - that’s the end of you.”

But that’s what made it all the more shocking when, on Sept. 20, 1958, the mentally ill woman produced from her handbag a 7-inch steel letter opener - and plunged it into Martin Luther King Jr.’s chest at a Manhattan signing for his book “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.”

 

 Middle-aged and neatly dressed, Izola Ware Curry did not have the cut of an assassin.

And so, 60 years ago today, the beating heart of the civil rights movement nearly ceased - until King was saved by two Harlem doctors.

If King had died that day, there would be no “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and no “I Have a Dream” building momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The attention to housing rights that marked King’s later career - and spurred the Civil Rights Act of 1968 - might never have come into sharp focus.

“Without Martin Luther King Jr., there would be no civil rights movement. My father allowed him those 10 extra years to continue the movement,” Ron Naclerio, whose thoracic surgeon dad, Dr. Emil Naclerio, helped save King, told The Post.

With Curry’s dagger still buried in his chest, King was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where Dr. Naclerio and Dr. John Cordice were called in to save the leader of a burgeoning movement.

Dr. John Cordice sitting in his home with a photo of the operating room the night Dr. King was stabbed

Naclerio was at home when the phone rang, his wife, Gloria, recalls.

“I remember we were getting ready to go to a wedding at the Waldorf. My husband had a tuxedo on, and I had my gown on, when the kitchen phone rang,” she told The Post last year, shortly before her death earlier this year.

“My husband answered it, asked a few questions, then hung up.”

Then “he looked at me and said there was a change in plans. He was going to take me to the wedding, but then he had go to work — he had an emergency. He didn’t say who or what the emergency was. That was my husband - he would have went to work no matter who the patient was.”

 

Curry’s blade was lodged in King’s sternum, just a hair’s breadth from his aorta - the main artery that pipes blood from the heart to the rest of the circulatory system - and Naclerio had to remove two ribs and go into King’s torso from the side, the son said.

The delicate procedure took the two physicians and their support team two and a half hours.

‘King hugged my father, thanked him, exchanged numbers, and a strong 10-year friendship began

During his final speech a decade later, King would reveal that his doctors told him the slightest movement — even a cough or sneeze — could have irreparably ruptured the artery and drowned him in his own blood in a matter of minutes.

“I want to say tonight, I, too, am happy I didn’t sneeze, because if I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters,” King said during his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968.

The following evening, nearly 10 years after the stabbing, a bullet fired by James Earl Ray killed King. But it couldn’t erase his world-changing achievements.

Dr. Naclerio was crushed.

“He was devastated. It was like a member of the family was killed,” Ron recalled. “He was very quiet all night, mostly staying in his office.”

The intense reaction spoke to the deep friendship that Naclerio and King forged after the surgeon saved his life.

“When Dr. King was released, he bumped into my father on the elevator,” Ron Naclerio said. “King hugged my father, thanked him, exchanged numbers, and a strong 10-year friendship began.

“They talked and saw each other over the next 10 years, calling the house on Thanksgiving and/or Christmas most years. They talked about a lot of things, King respected and trusted my father, and he would bounce thoughts and ideas off my father. I think they each thought of the other as a genius.”

King would test out passages from his forthcoming speeches on Naclerio, finding an intelligent ear and the kind of feedback only a movement outsider could provide, Ron remembered. 

Ron Naclerio sits in his Queens home kitchen looking through a scrapbook he has about how his father, Dr. Emil Naclerio, saved the life of Martin Luther King. 
Matthew McDermott

I want to share (maybe once again) this historic letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to my dad. Two of the greatest-Dr. King and Dr. Emil Naclerio- a pioneer as a thoracic surgeon who devised how to put in Pace Makers and the doctor who saved MLK' life

 

Emil Naclerio

Il medico italiano che salvò la vita a Martin Luther King di Manuela Cavalieri e Donatella Mulvoni
Era il 2013. Durante la presentazione di un documentario su King da Sylvia il ristorante di soul food più popolare di Harlem, ci siamo imbattute in Ron, allenatore di una squadra di baseball del Queens, ma soprattutto figlio di Emil Anthony Naclerio, il medico italoamericano che salvò la vita al reverendo Martin Luther King nel 1958.

Il medico italiano che salvò la vita a Martin Luther King
Emil Naclerio

https://www.raiplayradio.it/articoli/2018/04/Radio3-Tre-Soldi-EMIL-NACLERIO-MARTIN-LUTHER-KING-74c87db8-594d-40a7-9142-9e5d65119fcd.html

He's seen here recuperating with is mother (left) and wife (right).

 

 

 Dr. Martin Luther King autographs a copy of his book minutes before being attacked. With Jack Blumstein, Mrs. James Watson, Dr. Arthur Springer and Mrs. Robert Johnson

 

 As seen below, a photo published on the front page of the New York Daily News showed King with the letter opener sticking out of his upper chest.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/the-woman-who-nearly-murdered-martin-luther-king-jr-687453

DR. EMIL NACLERIO SAVES MLK'S LIFE

IMG 3781New York, NY - In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day we'd like to honor and acknowledge a man who was recognized as helping to save Martin Luther King Jr's life after he was stabbed in 1958.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was rushed to Harlem Hospital, Dr. Emil Naclerio performed a life saving operation that kept the civil rights leader alive.
Dr. Emil Naclerio's son went on to become the legendary high school basketball coach, Ron Naclerio (pictured) of Cardozo High School.
Watch the touching video below of how Naclerio kept one of our nation's greatest leaders alive.

https://www.bigapplebasketball.com/index.php/97-archives/1080-dr-emil-naclerio-saves-mlk-s-wife

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• https://nypost.com/2018/04/03/the-assassination-attempt-that-left-mlk-jr-with-a-cross-shaped-scar-on-his-heart
• https://nypost.com/2018/09/19/inside-the-friendship-between-mlk-jr-and-the-surgeon-who-saved-him
• https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Doctor-Saves-Martin-Luther-King-Junior-Life-New-York-City-Obituary-238289901.html

Frances X Cabrini❤️The People's Saint 🌹2017

Frances Xavier Cabrini

❤️ The People's Saint 💖
 

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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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Filmmaker Mauro to debut new
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.

https://reelchicago.com/article/writer-director-mauro-debut-new-mother-cabrini-doc170828

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Frances Xavier Cabrini:

The People's Saint
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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.

St Frances Cabrini 📖 A Passionate Life

St Frances Cabrini

📖 A Passionate Life 📖

By Mark Davis

Cabrini Health

📘 Biography & Autobiography 📗
📔 164 pages 📕

St Frances Cabrini: A Passionate Life is the new book written by Mark Davis and commissioned by Cabrini Health Australia to help make this remarkable woman accessible to a new generation of employees, supporters, friends and benefactors. 

Its purpose is to look back at her life with fresh eyes, distilling wisdom from it for our time and for the future.

“It is important to create moments in our busy lives to stop, to savor, to enjoy.  I hope this book will provide such an opportunity for you,” said Cath Garner, Executive Director, Mission and Strategy at Cabrini Health.

The beautifully crafted book draws both on the extensive letters written by Frances Cabrini during her lifetime, and other writings since.  

The book’s chapter headings reflect earlier work undertaken by the author, Mark Davis, to express her charisma, that is, her unique way of understanding, prioritizing and living her gift of faith. 

All of the images have been carefully chosen to provide a moment of reflection, to encourage a pause before reading on.

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