The Orphans Find a Home: A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story

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Frances Xavier Cabrini took flight to Heaven. Her love of God enabled her to "reach out to Truly, Mother Cabrini is testimony to the power of God's grace that made all this possible.

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Today, her Sisters continue to oversee misssions in 16 countries. This story was compilied from many sources on the internet. Thousands of Nor t hea st ern Penns y l v an i a re s ident s w il l flock to St. Lucy ' s Church nex t Sunda y to pay homage t o Bl e ss e d Mother Frances Xavier Cab r ini , onetime frequent vi si tor to Scranton, now the first A m e ri can c it izen to bec o me a s a int. Local festi v ities in observance of the canonization will be held at the same time as rites conducted by Pope Pius XII in Rome. A solemn high mass will be celebrated at St. Lucy's by the Rev.

Florey, pastor, at 11 a. A special shrine to Blessed Mother Cabrini has been erected in the church, and novena services preparatory to the canonization opened Friday, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, and will continue every evening at 7: The services consist of the Rosary, Litany of the Sacred Heart, special prayers for Mother Cabrini's intercession, sermon and benediction of the blessed sacrament, The Rev. Alphonsus Grande, CP, is director of the novena, assisted by the pastor and his assistants.

Mass is celebrated at 7, 8 and 9 a. Blessed Mother Cabrini stayed a week at the home of the late Mr. Fortunato Tiscar in , when she was here making arrangements for the establishment of St. She visited this City several times since. Her last visit was in , a few years before her death. She was responsible for the establishment of 67 schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Representatives of the religious order she founded, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, will leave LaGuardia Field Wednesday to fly to Rome for the canonization rites.

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That is significant because her desire to be a missionary to China, though never fulfilled, is traceable to these early years. She was turned down twice by religious communities when she attempted to enter at a young age, and what finally did bring her vocation to reality was a request from the Bishop of Lodi asking her to gather some like minded women to run the House of Providence Orphanage at Codogno, in his diocese. From that band of women was born the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Once established, the highest priority was the Order's locale.

The pontiff is suppossed to have replied, "Not to the East but to the West. There were some 50, Italian immigrants in Manhattan in , though the Sisters did not have an easy time of establishment. When Archbishop Corrigan was their plight and suggested they might consider returning to Italy, Mother Cabrini more resolved than ever. Over the next 35 years, she crossed the Ocean 30 times, establishing 67 houses of her order schools, hospitals, orphanages not only in the United States but also in France, England and South America.

As one biographer so aptly said of her "her glory belongs to Italy, to America, to the Church and to mankind. November 13 th Foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, patroness of immigrants, and the first citizen of the United States to be canonized. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Rome, February 15, Twenty-Eight Years of Faithful Service.

Next, Sister Cabrini turned her attention to the educational needs of the Italian immigrants. Archbishop Corrigan asked her to begin a new shcool. This school was to become enormously successful. The result of this school was some of the first vacations and her West Park novitate was soon full. In the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred heart of Jesus numbered members in 14 houses. This unprecented growth was a testament to the tremendous success of Mother Cabrini's work. Sacred Heart Orphanage, c. Then taking a group of seven daughters, she sailed back to New York. On her return there, Mother Cabrini set about buying a acre property of the Jesuits in West Park, on the Hudson River, for the sake of her orphans.

The Jesuits explained that their well had gone dry and one well-driller after another had failed to locate water! By this time, her ability had become well known amongst church leaders, and requests came to her to found schools and orphanages in France, Spain, England and Latin America. Soon after the opening of West Park she made another trip to Rome to enlarge her institute and to bring back more nuns. After seeing Pope Leo again, in September , Francesca sailed back to America with twenty-nine nuns.

Now Francesca agreed to open a private academy for the daughters of the wealthy in Granada, Nicaragua, because she thought they could use spiritual guidance.

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She chose fourteen nuns and set sail for that country on October 10, She set up the private school in Granada and was then off to New Orleans in America. There the Italians were ridiculed and treated like beasts of burden. Francesca rented a place for her nuns in the slum area. Before long she bought the place and soon, with the help of enthusiastic Italians, there was a beautiful chapel.

To this chapel, immigrants came in such large numbers, that it was necessary to celebrate Mass under a huge canopy outside. In every city where Mother Cabrini founded a house, she and her daughters went to the prisons to console and convert. In , Bishop Scalabrini opened a small hospital for Italians.

But poor Mother Cabrini found hospitals, nauseating and revolting. The hospital had previously fallen into bankruptcy so she had a hard time finding people to support it. Since charitable organizations would not come to her aid, she appealed to businessmen. After talking to Mother Cabrini, they realized that she was a very sensible, practical woman, and they supplied her hospital needs. Again she returned to Italy and visited each house. She saw Pope Leo who again asked her about her growing order and she told him amongst other things that she had been asked to open a house in Brazil.

Child you will then see what a vast field for Christ, South America is. Let us labor, Cabrini. Let us labor, for Paradise awaits! In spite of all her troubles, Mother Cabrini kept her great sense of humor. She joked with her nuns about the mistakes she made in the English language. And she mimicked the characters of her tales with comic faces and expressions that her nuns would almost die laughing, so funny did they find her.

God was with Mother Cabrini. She bought an old hospital and had it repaired and renovated.

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And in , the new Columbus Hospital, with more than beds, modern equipment, and an excellent medical staff, was approved by the State of New York. Having established her hospital, Francesca began the long trip to South America. On reaching Panama, there, she joyfully embraced her daughters. Chiara with her, she resumed her trip to South America. Chiara preferred traveling over the Andes Mountains rather than going by sea, so the two sisters, dressed in fur-lined cloaks, took the narrow mule trail up the mountain.

There was what seemed, a bottomless abyss on one side and eternal snow covered heights on the other side. The two nuns had much to encounter on their journey. Chiara lost her speech over all this and no matter how often Mother Cabrini told her to bravely sit up straight on the mule, she insisted on laying on the poor beast like a sack of potatoes, with her head buried against its neck.

And at one point in the trail, they met with a treacherous crevice, which they had to jump. When Mother Cabrini tried to leap over the crevice, she fell short, but quick as lightning, the guide pulled her to safety. Then they had a day of slipping and sliding down the perilous mountain trail and finally took the train to Buenos Aires. Mother Cabrini stayed for eight months, setting up an Academy in Buenos Aires. By August, , the Academy was flourishing, so Francesca returned to her houses in Italy to encourage her daughters there. Go there child, for England is precious in my heart!

Francesca left Rome for Paris, and there with the help of two benefactors, found an orphanage. She left for London on October 27 th , and after a few days stopover, set off for New York, where she arranged to set up more schools. She also set up a school in New Jersey and in May, , Mother Cabrini went with 14 of her daughters to set up another school in Chicago.

In spite of this she returned to Italy taking on a colossal amount of work, opening convents and other institutions. He is with thee wherever thou goest. God has elected thee! Mother Cabrini spent seven successful months in the Argentine and then sailed for Rome. Again she saw Pope Leo and after that she visited all the Italian houses, and the house in Paris; and she established the first house in England.

Then she was off again to the United States. In July, , Francesca went to found a school in Denver, Colorado. And while there, she and her nuns went down into the mines to visit the Italian men and tell them about God and the school she was planning to build for their children in Denver.

He had not only reversed the intrusion of European Godlessness, but also was responsible for reviving the Catholic Faith in Protestant countries as well. And although Mother Cabrini felt the loss of this dear friend, she believed that now she had a great heavenly intercessor for her mission. At the end of , Francesca went to Chicago to found a hospital.

St. Frances Cabrini

She went about raising funds, but the money came in slowly. It was a grey stone building, six stories high, and had been one of the most fashionable hotels, until it was ruined by bad management. However there was going to be a lot of sweat, blood, and tears in order to finish the hospital. First of all, the owners tried to cheat the Missionary Sisters out of a portion of the land occupied by the hotel. And later, the contractor suggested so many improvements on the hotel, when only a few small changes would have sufficed, that the building was almost completely gutted.

As in the case of New York, Francesca decided to call this hospital, the Columbus Hospital, again in order to please the Italians; both liberal and conservative. Though she was suffering from a high fever, Mother Cabrini then headed for Seattle, where she set up a small orphanage, a parochial school and a small church for Italian immigrants; in which she herself used a pick-axe to dig the foundation. Then she acquired a piece of property at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver, Colorado, where 30 orphans were to be housed. And in the fall she headed for California to establish an orphanage and convent in Los Angeles.

Elsewhere, in , in New Orleans, an epidemic of yellow fever swept through the city. The poor immigrants living as they did in close congestion in the slums, fell victim to the fever. But not one of the Missionary Sisters who were there helping the Italians, caught the infection, though they had been exposed to it more than anybody else. There were now nuns in fifty different convents, orphans and thousands of pupils, and , patients who had been treated in their hospitals. Mother Cabrini had become so well known that her name was echoed honorably and affectionately from one end of the United States to the other.

And her name was held in love and reverence not only in the United States, but also in South America and Central America, and wherever she had set her foot. The priests of the diocese said that it had never happened before, in Los Angeles, that the foundress of a religious institute was there at the time of its jubilee. So the priests celebrated it with the utmost pomp but at the same time, Mother Cabrini looked forward to a future day when she could celebrate the jubilee with her daughters in Italy. After establishing the California foundations, in , Francesca went back to Italy.

At this time, Milan was having an exhibition of Italian work that had been done in foreign countries. Francesca was asked to send the products of her American and South American houses. At the end of , Francesca was on her way to Argentina to open a larger school in Buenos Aires and after three months she was off to Brazil to start the foundation of two large schools in Rio de Janeiro.

The Orphans Find a Home: A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story by Joan Stromberg

An epidemic of smallpox broke out there and several of her nuns caught the disease. Then, on her way from Sao Paolo to Rio, Francesca herself, fell victim to malaria. She was forced to convalesce for a while and then she returned to the United States. Mother Cabrini spent two years solidifying her foundations in America and building even another hospital in Chicago.

But the devil was close at hand and enticed enemies to work particular havoc. They hid themselves in the building one evening, after Mother Cabrini and her sisters had left, and they cut the water pipes. They lived in crowded and dirty apartments, lived on scraps, and were unable to find work. Sad stories traveled back to the home country, right to Mother Cabrini. So Mother Cabrini set out on the long trip to America. Over the next thirty-seven years, Mother Cabrini was constantly on the move, starting schools, orphanages, and hospitals for Italian immigrants, and others in need.

After she founded the hospital, Mother Cabrini made trips back to Italy to organize more nuns for work in America. Between these trips, she and some sisters headed south to Argentina. The sisters went by way of Panama and then Lima, Peru. They made the journey by boat, train, mule, and on foot. It was in Chicago that Mother Cabrini, at the age of sixty-seven, passed away.


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