“We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success…but on   Jesus alone.” Mother Xavier Francis Cabrini

Mother Xavier Francis Cabrini is the first naturalized citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church becoming the first American woman citizen to become a saint.

Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American religious sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States.

Mother Xavier Francis Cabrini – American-Italian Religious Sister – Associated Links:

• St. Francis Xavier Cabrini | Catholics Online: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=278 
• St. Francis Xavier Cabrini | Franciscan Media: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-frances-xavier-cabrini/
• St. Francis Xavier Cabrini | Britannica.com: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Frances-Xavier-Cabrini
• Mother Cabrini| Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: https://www.mothercabrini.org/who-we-are/mother-cabrini/
• Patron Saint of Immigrants: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini | The Catholic Sun: http://www.catholicsun.org/2015/11/24/patron-saint-of-immigrants-st-frances-xavier-cabrini/
• St. Francis Xavier Cabrini | Short Biography of Mother Cabrini: http://www.salvemariaregina.info/Martyrologies/Cabrini.html
• “How Mother Cabrini Became the First American  Saint” | Time.com: http://time.com/4380994/frances-cabrini-first-american-saint/
• Francis Xavier Cabrini |  Quotes: http://www.azquotes.com/author/25109-Frances_Xavier_Cabrini

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