Today the Traditional Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of Holy, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin. She was born at St. Angelo on July 15, 1850. A few hours after her birth a flock of white doves appeared there in the courtyard, who her father had placed the grain to dry. Fearing that the doves might damage the grain, he drove them away, but without any luck. They returned again and again, it was a happy omen! At the age of seven, Saint Frances was confirmed, then at the age of ten she received her first Holy communion. When she was still a child, she was so modest, and amiable that she was named “the little Saint.” She enjoyed playing with dolls and dressing them as Nuns, whom she ruled as a little abbess, and making small paper boats, she would fill them with violets, and placed them in the water, she imagined she was sending Missionaries to the pagan lands. She learned in her early education from her sister Rose, a license to teach. At the age of thirteen, she entered a school, Daughters of the Sacred Heart at Arluno, then at the age of eighteen, having succeeded brilliantly in her studies, she was granted a normal school certificate. She then went back home, and at that time she lost her parents the following year. At that time Don Bassano Dede, a parish priest of St. Angelo, needed aid in his pastoral works, St. Frances excepted his offer to help him, teaching the Catholic doctrine to children, she also visited the sick and helped the poor. Later she taught schools in nearby towns. In all this time she felt strongly drawn to the Religious life and performed many acts of self denial. When she was slept, it was on two boards instead of a mattress. Several times she applied for admission to different Religious Communities, she had no luck. Some time later when asked to supervise an orphanage in Cadogno, she at first refused, because she still wanted to become a Religious. Finally she consented to try it for fifteen days, those fifteen days turned into six years, in 1880 she was still directing this work, with the help of a group of young women, who also dedicated themselves to this Missions. In this same year, the Bishop of Lodi commissioned her to establish a Missionary Institute. Frances and her companions then took over an ancient Franciscan Convent, a few days later, Holy Mass was celebrated, Holy Communion was distributed to the new community. A new academy was opened, which was soon filled to its capacity. Saint Frances was then elected Mother General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. The whole Community grew, and new houses started up quickly, among them, two in the Papal City, in Rome, On March 12, 1888, the Holy See approved the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. One day, Bishop Sealabrini, the founder of the Missionaries of Emigration, told her of the difficulties and misery of Italian emigrants in America, and suggested that Frances establish her Community in New York. Saint Frances did not immediately act on this suggestion. But when in an audience, Pope Leo XIII said to her, “Not to the East, but to the West. Go to the United States,” Saint Frances did not hesitated. She landed in America on March 31, 1889, and immediately started her works, a work that lasted until her death. For the Italian children she erected schools, kindergartens, orphanages, hospitals and free dispensaries. She became active in all kinds of social welfare work. In her 37 years here on earth, she established 67 houses in Europe and America. At the time of her death, her Community numbered five hundred Sisters, there were five thousand children in her schools, orphanages. Her hospitals took care of almost one hundred thousand sick. Saint Frances faithfully pasted away in Chicago, on December 22, 1917, at the age of 67. On November 13, 1938, she was declared “Blessed” by Pope Pius XI and was canonized by Pope Pius XII in the year 1946, Her relics are preserved in the Chapel of the Mother Cabrini High School, New York.
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