Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
It was on July 7, 1946, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, that Pope Pius XII canonized Frances Xavier Cabrini, making her the first U.S. citizen to be named a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Four years later, that same pope named her the patron saint of all immigrants. All of this happened about 30 years after her passing in 1917 at the age of 67 at Columbus Hospital in Chicago. Between then and when she arrived in America at the age of 38, she had founded 67 orphanages, hospitals, schools and other social institutions worldwide. This year, …
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