They chose one, they got seven. Others. //
When New Yorkers voted on the one woman to honor, the overwhelming winner was Catholic Saint Frances Cabrini. //
On March 31, 1889, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a tiny, frail nun, daughter of a Lombard farmer, arrived in New York with six’ members of the order she had formed, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII had sent her to work among the Italian immigrants who were finding neither a welcome nor prosperity in the New World, and worse, in the eyes of the Church, were losing their faith and piety. //
She was an American after America’s heart, and in 1909, in her 59th year, she became a U.S. citizen.
Those in charge declined to include her.
Frances is the patron saint of immigrants.
