Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (Maria Francesca Cabrini) also known as Mother Cabrini, is canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XII becoming the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Mother Cabrini was a prominent religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC), a religious institute that today provides education, health care, and other services to the poor in 15 nations.
Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850, migrated to the United States in 1887 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1909. She died in Chicago in 1917,The Vatican beatified Cabrini in 1938 and named her as the patron saint of immigrants in 1959. More
