Fun facts about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

The relentless work of Italian-American nun Frances Xavier Cabrini, a Roman Catholic, earned her canonization in 1946. She was raised in a Catholic setting in rural Italy and is known as the patron saint of immigrants. She dreamed of becoming a missionary to China as a young girl.

She was turned down for admission into a religious group at the age of twenty due to her ill health. Unfazed, she started serving as a layperson before eventually taking a religious vow at the age of 27. At the age of 30, she founded her own order and spent the following nine years working in Italy.

She departed for the USA at the age of 39 on the pope’s orders, establishing a number of organisations to support the Italian immigrant population there.

Fun facts about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

24 transatlantic voyages were made by Frances Xavier Cabrini, who also founded 67 educational, medical, and charitable organizations. She passed away on December 22, 1917, in Chicago. Pope Pius XII declared Mary a saint in 1946 in honor of her sanctity and humanitarian work.