Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Original Painting Select an Option:unframed Bonaventure Ostendarp & Raphael Pfister

Bonaventure Ostendarp & Raphael Pfister based on a German original

They couldn't even finish the foundation until 1884 because of the engineering problems at the top of the soft dirt hill they were building on

she is shown with the Shepherd's Crook of a bishop

something he actually did

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Original Painting Select an Option:unframed Bonaventure Ostendarp & Raphael PfisterFrances Cabrini was the youngest of 13 children, from a village near Milan, Italy. In 1880, when she was 30, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Although she wanted to do missionary work in China, Pope Leo XIII sent her to New York City instead. Mother Frances Cabrini and her sisters organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds.