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This beautifully detailed statue of Saint Frances Cabrini is made of a high quality chalk composition material.  Measures 24in. tall and is made in the USA.  For indoor use only.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 11/13 Tridentine Calendar - 12/22 Patron Of: Emigrants, Hospital Administrators, Immigrants, Orphans Profile     One of thirteen children raised on a farm. She received a convent education, and training as a teacher. She tried to join the order at age 18, but poor health prevented her taking the veil. A priest asked her to teach at a girl's school, the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadagono, Italy, which she did for six years. Took religious vows in 1877, and acquitted herself so well at her work that when the orphanage closed in 1880, her bishop asked her to found the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. Pope Leo XIII then sent her to the United States to carry on this mission.     She and six Sisters arrived in New York in 1889. They worked among immigrants, especially Italians. Mother Cabrini founded 67 institutions, including schools, hospitals, and orphanages in the United States, Europe and South America. Like many of the people she worked with, Mother became a United States citizen during her life, and after her death she was the first US citizen to be canonized. Born     1850 at Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy Died     22 December 1917 at Chicago, Illinois, USA of malaria; interred at 701 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York, USA Beatified     13 November 1938; her beatification miracle involved the restoration of sight to a child who had been blinded by excess silver nitrate in the eyes Canonized     7 July 1946 by Pope Pius XII; her canonization miracle involved the healing of a terminally ill nun All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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