Frances Xavier Cabrini

(before 22 December 1917) (link)

Feast Day November 13

Patron of Immigrants, Hospital Administrators, Orphans

Situations Immigration, Orphanhood, Poverty

Professions Educators, Hospital Administrators, Missionaries

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first naturalized American citizen to be canonized. Born in Italy in 1850, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and was sent by Pope Leo XIII to the United States to minister to Italian immigrants. She established sixty-seven institutions — orphanages, schools, and hospitals — across the Americas and Europe.