Friday, Nov. 13
ST. FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI (b Italy 1850, d USA 1917)
Missionary and Founder, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Patron Saint of Immigrants
Born to a modest family in Lombardy, she became a nun and soon rose
to be the Mother Superior of an orphanage in Codogno where she taught.
When the orphanage closed, she and seven of her colleagues set up
the Missionary Sisters order. Her work brought her to the attention
of Leo XIII who asked her to go the United States as a missionary
instead of China which she would have preferred. With Chicago as
her base, she and her order established dozens of schools, hospitals
and orphanages for poor people, as well as assistance and adult
education for Italian immigrants. In 1946, she became the first US
citizen to be canonized.
OR today.
The Pope to professors and students of Rome's LUMSA university:
'A decisive and courageous investment in knowledge and education'
Other Page 1 stories: The Holy Father's audience with the President of Croatia; an essay by the FAO director-general on world hunger anticipates the world summit on food security next week in Rome, to be opened by the Pope; the International Red Cross reports on millions of refugees who are not getting any aid; President Obama tells Afghan President Karzai that the US will not stay in Afghanistan 'forever'; and Israel PM Netanyahu opens a dialog with Syria.
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today with
- H.E. Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary and his delegation
- Bishops of Brazil (South Sector-1, Group 4) on ad limina visit
- Members of the full Pontifical Council Cor Unum. Address in Italian.
- Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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