Word: cabrini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved as a child from drowning, she had a lifetime horror of water...
Next candidates for North American sainthood are Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York, foundress of the Sisters of Charity...