St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and helped Italian-American immigrants. She was canonized in 1946.

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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was born on July 15, 1850. In 1880, near Lodi, Italy, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which did charity work for the poor. In 1889, Pope Leo XIII sent her to the United States, where she offered assistance to Italian-American immigrants. She died on December 22, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois, and was declared a saint by Pope Pius XII in 1946.

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