Nun. Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first American citizen to be canonised. Born in 1850, in Lodi in Italy, she was the 13th child of her family. As a young woman she worked as a teacher in a parish ...

I t is quite rare for a reactionary figure such as a Catholic saint to receive favorable biographical treatment from the film industry as Angel Studios recently afforded St. Frances Xavier Cabrini ...

Mother Cabrini – who took the name Frances Xavier in 1877 when she took her vows to honor the saint – became a U.S. citizen in Seattle in 1909. At age 67, she died in Chicago on December 22 ...

The Catholic film of 2024 easily is Cabrini, which tells the story of St. Frances Cabrini traveling from Italy to New York to care for the orphaned and destitute Italians. Despite many roadblocks ...

But the National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, scheduled to reopen Sept. 30, marks the spot where Mother Cabrini, the first American citizen to be canonized and the universal patroness of ...

A two-part, comprehensive, animated, historical documentary series focusing on two iconic women who were the first American Catholic saints: Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini.

This park honors Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a Roman Catholic missionary ... to the United States to aid Italian immigrants. In Manhattan, Cabrini taught at St. Joachim’s parish, the ...

Francis Xavier, a Basque nobleman, left his home at the age of 19 to study at the University of Paris. There he met Saint Ignatius of Loyola who convinced the worldly young man to dedicate himself ...