Born in 1850
FD of St Frances Xavier Cabrini (d 1850) founded a missionary order to go to China. The pope told her her mission was “not in the East but in the West”—among the masses of Italian immigrants in the US who were crowding the cities with no one to care for them. She set out in 1889.
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Replying to @MaryMargaretGil
Oops. Thanks

Nov 13, 2019 · 2:08 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
☺it's that I had a Latin teacher in school that knew her...said she was a pistol! Well, not in those words