St. Frances Cabrini was born on 15 July 1850 in Italy. She founded an order (The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) with the intention of evangelizing China. When she sought the permission of Pope Leo XIII, however, he told her she would go “not to the East, but to the West.” Her first stop was New York, where she and her sisters ministered to the Italian immigrants who had little support for their faith in the predominantly Protestant United States.
By the end of her life, her missionary work had taken her to establish sixty-seven institutions throughout the United States, Central America, and South America. Today, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is established in seventeen countries on six continents. Mother Cabrini died in 1917. She was canonized in 1946 and named the Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.
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