SAINT FEAST DAY 13 NOVEMBER: ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 13th of November 

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SAINT FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI, FOUNDRESS

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini was born into a farming family in Lombardy, Italy, in 1850. She was attracted to a missionary life from an early age and founded the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Codogno in 1880. Her original missionary dream was to go to China but historical circumstances prevented this. Pope Leo XIII directed her to the United States, where millions of Italians were arriving in search of work and with the hope of a better life.

THE UNIVERSAL PATRONESS OF IMMIGRANTS

Over the next 30 years she established 67 foundations in Europe, the United States and Central and South America. This included schools, hospitals, orphanages and social centres. She established a school in Honor Oak, South London. She died in Chicago, USA, on December 22, 1917. She was canonised in 1946 and declared Universal Patroness of Immigrants by Pope Pius XII in 1950. Today she is known as Mother Cabrini, Patron Saint of Migrants. Her feast is November 13. 

From a leaflet by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.