St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

SAINT FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI 
St. Frances was born on July 15, 1850 as the youngest of thirteen children in the family of a peasant in Italy, in the region of Lombardy. Frances completed her education and became a teacher. In 1874 she entered the religious order of Sisters of Divine Providence in Codogno, Italy where she became the director of a boarding school and an orphanage. In 1880 Frances founded the congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; the congregation was approved by the Pope within a year. Since she had a great respect for St. Francis Xavier she took his name Xavier as her religious name. Until her death she remained the Mother Superior of her religious order. At the request of Pope Leo XIII. she moved to the United States of America in 1888, where she worked among immigrants. She worked and involved herself in charitable and spiritual activities. She founded 67 different institutions in large cities from New York to Latin America: schools, hospitals, convents and orphanages. In Chicago she founded the home Convent for her order. In 1909, she became a US citizen. Frances Xavier Cabrini died in Chicago in 1917. She left behind many spiritual writings. She was beatified in 1938 and canonized on July 7, 1946 and was named Patroness of Immigrants in 1950. We celebrate her feast day on November 13th. 

SVÄTÁ FRANTIŠKA XAVIERA CABRINI 
Sv. Františka sa narodila 15. júla 1850 ako najmladšia z trinástich detí v rodine roľníka v oblasti Lombardie v Taliansku . Františka ukončila svoje školy a stala sa učiteľkou. V roku 1874 vstúpila do rehole Sestier Božej prozreteľnosti v meste Codogno, v Taliansku, kde sa stala riaditeľkou internátnej školy a sirotinca. Františka v roku 1880 založila rád Misijných sestier Najsvätejšieho Srdca Ježišovho, ktorý už o rok dostal schválenie od pápeža. Keďže mala veľkú úctu k sv. Františkovi Xaverskému, prijala rehoľné meno Xaviera. Až do smrti zostala generálnou predstavenou rehole. Na žiadosť pápeža Leva XIII. odišla v roku 1888 do Spojených štátov amerických, kde pracovala medzi prisťahovalcami. Vyvíjala charitatívnu ale aj duchovnú činnosť. Počínajúc New Yorkom až po Latinskú Ameriku, založila vo väčších mestách 67 rôznych ustanovizní: školy, nemocnice, kláštory a sirotince. V Chicagu založila materský dom rehole. V roku 1909 získala americké občianstvo. Františka Xaviera Cabrini zomrela v Chicagu v roku 1917. Zanechala po sebe množstvo duchovných spisov. Za blahoslavenú bola vyhlásená v roku 1938 a za svätú 7. júla 1946, v roku 1950 bola ustanovená za patrónku emigrantov. V USA slávime jej sviatok 13. novembra.