Nov. 13, Saturday, 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
Third from right, the saint's founder statue in St. Peter's Basilica.
ST. FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI (b Italy 1850, d USA 1917)
Virgin, Missionary, and Founder, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Patron Saint of Immigrants
Born to a modest family in a town near Milan, 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 material assistance and adult education for Italian immigrants. In 1946, she became the first US citizen to be canonized.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/111310.shtml
OR today.
No papal story in today's OR other than the news release regarding the apostolic visitations in Ireland. Page 1 international news: G20 summit in Seoul ends without any agreement on the currency and trade war between the US and China; Milan to name its central train station for St. Frances Cabrini in a major ceremony today, with Cardinal Bertone present; the United Kingdom plans next to disallow unemployment benefits to anyone who refuses three times to take an available job; Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki, reconfirmed to head the new government 8 months since the elections his party narrowly lost, has 30 days to form a new government - former PM Allawi, a Sunni, whose party won 2 more votes than Maliki's will head a Security Council to oversee the executive department; and the UN calls for itnernational help to Haiti, where a cholera epidemic has now claimed more than 700 lives.
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today with
- Francisco Argüello, Founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, and delegation
= Participants in the annual plenary meeting of the Pontifical Council for Culture. Address in Italian.
- Ten Brazilian bishops from the central western Sector, on ad limina visit. Individual meetings.
And in the afternoon, he held his regular meetings with
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; and
- Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
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