[30][31], Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.: In 1899–1900, Mother Cabrini helped to found St. Lucy parish and school for Scranton's Italian immigrants. Both hospitals eventually closed in 2001–2002. [12], Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI, and canonized on July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII. Con il suo ottimismo riuscì a coinvolgere non solo magnati e dame della buona società ma anche benefattori più modesti che aderivano volentieri alle sue imprese. Instead, he urged that she go to the United States to help the Italian immigrants who were flooding to that nation, mostly in great poverty. Nel 2018 per i tipi della Carocci, Luride, agitate, criminali. She was the youngest of the thirteen children of farmers Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. [21], The St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan overlooks the Hudson River, the George Washington Bridge, and the New Jersey Palisades. In a 2019 New York City survey, Mother Cabrini was "the leading vote-getter by far" among more than 300 nominees for the "She Built NYC" municipal statue program. She obtained the archbishop's permission to found the Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum in West Park, New York, later renamed Saint Cabrini Home. [6] Cabrini composed the Rule and Constitutions of the religious institute, and she continued as its superior general until her death. In questo ritratto si colloca la figura di The camp dormitory, built of native rock and named the Stone House, was completed in 1914 and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Parole sparse, Roma, 1938, Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Tra un’onda e l’altra. Epistolario di Suor Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Roma, 2002, Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Pensieri e propositi, Roma, 1982, Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Scritti. Cabrini died of complications from malaria at age 67 in Columbus Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on December 22, 1917,[2] while preparing Christmas candy for the local children. Infatti, quando il vescovo di Piacenza, mons. Due to the overwhelming number of pilgrims after her canonization in 1946, the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Samuel Stritch, commissioned a large National Shrine in her honor within the hospital complex. Cabrini left for the United States, arriving in New York City on March 31, 1889, along with six other sisters. Già in questi primi anni presso la scuola di Castiraga Vidardo, si andava delineando il suo modello educativo imperniato sulla “missionarietà”, cioè lavorare affinché si sviluppasse nei bambini e nei ragazzi il senso dell’accoglienza, della solidarietà, del rispetto delle radici storiche e delle tradizioni culturali di ciascuno, in modo che ognuno possa svolgere la sua parte in spirito evangelico, di carità e libertà. Ha riordinato gli archivi di tutti gli ex ospedali psichiatrici della Campania, di cui ha pubblicato gli inventari. A new convent building, completed in 1970, includes housing for the resident Sisters, overnight accommodations for visitors, a chapel dedicated to the Sacred Heart, and an exhibit of artifacts and clothing once used by Cabrini. [2] Only four of the thirteen survived beyond adolescence. Gli inizi non furono semplici. Her 1946 canonization brought a further sustained level of public interest, so in 1957–1960 a larger shrine was built adjoining the school. Lâetà e le condizioni di salute le impediscono di viaggiare negli stessi dormitori degli emigranti, ma lâanziana suora viaggiatrice non demorde. In September 1887, Cabrini went to seek the pope's approval to establish missions in China. Her body was originally interred at what became Saint Cabrini Home, the orphanage she founded in West Park, Ulster County, New York. [7] In New York she encountered disappointment and difficulties. [11] Their foundress' name lives on in Chicago's Cabrini Street. [8] Her beatification miracle involved restoring the sight of a day-old baby who had been blinded by a 50% silver nitrate solution instead of the normal 1% solution in the child's eyes. “Il mondo è troppo piccolo”, ripeteva spesso Francesca Saverio Cabrini (Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, 15 luglio 1850-Chicago, 22 dicembre 1917), religiosa e missionaria italiana naturalizzata statunitense nel 1909, fondatrice della congregazione delle Missionarie del Sacro Cuore di Gesù, nel 1946 è stata la prima cittadina statunitense a essere proclamata santa. Nello stesso tempo, è caratterizzato dalla missionarietà , fino allora prerogativa esclusiva degli uomini. In November 1880, she and seven other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.). Mother Cabrini Park in Newark, New Jersey, includes a 1958 statue of the saint on the former site of one of her schools. Dottore di ricerca in Studi di Genere, archivista, storica e ricercatrice, si occupa di riordino e valorizzazione di archivi pubblici e privati. Arrivata a New York si rende conto del penoso stato in cui versano gli emigranti italiani, i più poveri tra i nuovi arrivati. Attraverso il suo nuovo modo di intendere la religiosità femminile promosse in maniera attiva l’emancipazione delle capacità di iniziativa femminile. Un secolo di internamento femminile (1850-1950). Non fu un caso se fu definita da un quotidiano statunitense “una grande donna di affari”. In Chicago, the sisters opened Columbus Hospital in Lincoln Park and Columbus Extension Hospital (later renamed Saint Cabrini Hospital) in the heart of the city's Italian neighborhood on the Near West Side. Elizabeth Seton was born in New York on August 28, 1774, which was then a British colony. Era lì che voleva andare con il suo piccolo esercito di donne, solo sette, le Missionarie del S. Cuore di Gesù, che aveva costituito il 14 novembre 1880, con questo titolo ritenuto insolito per una congregazione di suore, ma difeso sempre strenuamente dalla fondatrice. She was born Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850, in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombard Province of Lodi, then part of the Austrian Empire. [27], Lower Manhattan, New York, U.S.: Our Lady of Pompeii Church was founded in 1892 as a national parish to serve the Italian-American immigrants of Greenwich Village. Dopo una decina dâanni dâazione in Italia, tra gli emigranti in partenza, suor Cabrini decide che occorre seguirli nel luogo dâemigrazione. 1850-1917, Stati Uniti, Biografia di Cabrini Saverio Francesca . Diplomata maestra elementare, si fa religiosa nel 1874. When she was canonized, an estimated 120,000 people filled Chicago's Soldier Field for a Mass of thanksgiving.[14]. [citation needed], Cabrini was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1909.[5]. Lâufficiale la registra come superior mother. Cabrini. Ed è che così, nel 1889, sulla nave La Bourgogne in partenza da Le Havre, la Cabrini si mescola agli emigranti italiani e facendosi registrare come farmer, contadina, viene registrata a Castle Garden, al suo arrivo a New York, il 1° aprile dello stesso anno. [13] Her canonization miracle involved the healing of a terminally ill member of her congregation. The Cabrini Mission Foundation, founded in 1998, is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support Cabrini programs and institutions focused on health care, education, and social services. La concretezza nel realizzare le opere e a mettere a segno affari fecero di lei una antesignana del crowdfunding. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun.She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States. Per questi meriti fu dichiarata santa da Papa Pio XII il 7 luglio 1946 e nel 1950 fu proclamata “patrona degli emigranti”. As one priest explained: "She lived in New York City. He dedicated the shrine in 1955. The child, named Peter Smith (1921–2002), would later be present at her beatification and become a priest. Martyrologium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2001). She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States. Nel 1946 sarà proclamata santa, la prima santa americana. Chiese quindi aiuto a don Serrati per convincere Francesca ad accettare l’incarico; su consiglio di don Bassano Dedè, parroco di Sant’Angelo e suo direttore spirituale al quale rimase Nel 1877 fece la professione di fede aggiungendo al suo nome quello di Saverio, in onore di San Francesco Saverio, missionario nell’Estremo Oriente. Per le sue iniziative è ritenuta uno dei riferimenti del moderno servizio sociale. [21], Queen of Heaven Orphanage closed in 1967, replaced by a system of foster care. As Cabrini's cause for sainthood accelerated in 1933, the Missionary Sisters moved her remains from the Sacred Heart Orphanage she had founded in rural West Park, New York, to the chapel of a Catholic school she had founded in Manhattan, freshly renamed Mother Cabrini High School. Una fragile quanto straordinaria maestrina di Sant'Angelo Lodigiano. Mother Cabrini Park was created in Brooklyn, New York, in 1992. Extensive additions in 1954 included a long Stairway of Prayer for pilgrims following her footpath up the mountain, marked with the Stations of the Cross, leading to a 22-foot (7 m) Statue of Jesus at the highest point of the site. Francesca. Cabrini organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for the needs of the many orphans. Quaranta biografie di italiane e di italiani che partirono alla ricerca di una vita migliore verso la Merica: Brasile, Argentina, Stati Uniti. Dopo pochi anni, nel 1880 fonda a Codogno una nuova Congregazione: le Missionarie del Sacro Cuore di Gesù. Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Lettere. Relazioni di viaggio di Madre Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Roma, 1980, G. Dall'Ongaro, Francesca Cabrini. She was as resourceful as she was prayerful, finding people who would donate what she needed in money, time, labor, and support. Nel 1890, quando a New Orleans il capo della polizia locale fu assassinato da ignoti, e la colpa ricadde, senza alcuna prova, sui dagos, cioè gli italiani laceri, malnutriti, senza fissa dimora, Francesca si recò nella città e denunciò: “Gli italiani sono stati diffamati, al punto che la folla, aizzata da chi ne voleva l’espulsione, ne ha linciati a dozzine”. [19], The hospital and shrine closed in 2002, to be replaced by a high-rise development on North Lakeview Avenue, but the shrine and Cabrini's room were preserved and refurbished during the long period of demolition and construction. Ma Francesca Saverio riuscì a coinvolgere nel suo progetto una ricca cattolica americana, la contessa Mary Isabel Reid Jennings di Cesnola, moglie del conte Luigi Palma di Cesnola il primo direttore del Metropolitan Museum, e aprì una prima scuola in un appartamento offerto dalla contessa, senza però trascurare l’assistenza e l’insegnamento nei quartieri degli immigrati, che erano a quel tempo i più degradati della città. "[24], Southwark, London, England: In St George's Cathedral, Southwark, which Cabrini regularly attended during her time in London, a shrine was dedicated to her in 2009, designed by brothers Theodore, James, and Gabriel Gillick. In the Roman Martyrology, her feast day is December 22, the anniversary of her death, the day ordinarily chosen as a saint's feast day. Cabrini took religious vows in 1877 and added Xavier (Saverio) to her name to honor the Jesuit saint, Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionary service.[5]. They were solemnly blessed and re-dedicated by Cardinal Francis George on September 30, 2012, and reopened to the public the next day. G. Dall'Ongaro, Francesca Cabrini. NellâItalia di quegli anni, individua nellâemigrazione un terreno di assistenza e di pastorale molto impegnativo. [3] The institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery in its first five years. Egli, essendo anche cappellano delle Figlie del Sacro Cuore, conosceva bene la Cabrini , la sua rettitudine morale e la sua profondità religiosa. Its good works brought Cabrini to the attention of (the now Blessed) Giovanni Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, and of Pope Leo XIII. Dopo pochi anni, nel 1880 fonda a Codogno una nuova Congregazione: le Missionarie del Sacro Cuore di Gesù. In 1910, she purchased rural property from the town of Golden, on the east slope of Lookout Mountain, as a summer camp for the girls. (Elizabeth Ann Seton in 1975 became the first canonized Saint who was born in what is now the United States.)[1]. Tra la terra e il cielo, Milano, 2003. [3], After the deaths of her parents in 1870, she applied for admission to the Daughters of the Sacred Heart at Arluno. Francesca fu costantemente in movimento fra le due Americhe e l’Europa per fondare o consolidare le numerose missioni concepite non solo per essere vicine agli emigrati italiani, nell’assistenza materiale ma anche e soprattutto affinché i loro diritti fossero riconosciuti dai paesi che li ospitavano. [20], Where Cabrini had once located an underground spring on the mountainside, a replica of the Lourdes Grotto was built in 1929, later replaced by a simpler sandstone structure. Relazioni di viaggio di Madre Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Roma, 1980. She founded 67 missionary institutions to serve the sick and poor, long before government agencies provided extensive social services – in New York; Chicago and Des Plaines, Illinois; Seattle; New Orleans; Denver and Golden, Colorado; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; and in countries throughout Latin America and Europe. È il primo di una lunga serie di viaggi. During her childhood, she visited an uncle, Don Luigi Oldini of Livagra, a priest who lived beside a swift canal. Solo nel 1925 le Missionarie di Francesca Saverio riuscirono ad andare in Cina. [20] The statues and stained-glass windows of the chapel came from Villa Cabrini Academy in Burbank, California, a former school founded by the Missionary Sisters. L’arcivescovo newyorkese Corrigan cercò addirittura di rimandare in patria quelle suore che, a suo avviso, non avevano una sufficiente base finanziaria per i loro progetti. These sisters were her former teachers, but, reluctantly, they told her she was too frail for their life. She understands traffic. Nel 1888 Francesca incontra Papa Leone XIII e accetta di svolgere la sua missione «non a Oriente ma a Occidente». 1850 Sant’Angelo Lodigiano - 1917 Chicago, I contenuti dell’Enciclopedia delle donne sono pubblicati sotto licenza Creative Commons, "Questo sito utilizza cookie tecnici o assimiliati e cookie di profilazione di terze parti in forma aggregata, per rendere pi\u00f9 agevole la navigazione, garantire la fruizione dei servizi. [19], In 1904, Cabrini established Denver's Queen of Heaven Orphanage for girls, including many orphans of local Italian miners. [28][29], Peru, New York, U.S.: In 1947, one year after Cabrini's canonization, a shrine was dedicated to her in Peru, New York. The bronze sculpture depicts the saint watching over a group of migrants standing on a pile of suitcases. Mother Cabrini and her Missionary Sisters taught religious education there for a time, and the church now honors her with a shrine, a statue, and a stained-glass window. When the new shrine was near completion in 1959, her remains were transferred to a large bronze-and-glass reliquary casket in the shrine's altar. [25], Burbank, California, U.S.: Near the site of Villa Cabrini Academy (1937–1970), Burbank's Cabrini shrine consists of a chapel founded by Mother Cabrini in 1916, relocated to St. Francis Xavier Church and renovated during 1973–1975, and joined by a library wing in 1993. Diplomata maestra elementare, si fa religiosa nel 1874. She was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946. An arm bone is at her national shrine in Chicago. Una lettura di 4 minuti. ", Leggi tutte le voci scritte da Candida Carrino. The summer campsite became a year-round facility for retreats and small prayer gatherings. Così, il 23 marzo 1889, insieme a sette giovani suore, si imbarca per l’America. Per le edizioni Intra Moenia ha pubblicato nel 2013 Le monache ribelli raccontate da suor Fulvia Caracciolo e Andar per Monasteri. [32], Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Per 28 volte Madre Cabrini attraversa l’oceano. Questo primo risultato incoraggiò Francesca a mettere in campo le sue doti manageriali. [22] In addition to accommodating the public, the new shrine also served Cabrini High School students as a place for their liturgies and prayer services, until the school closed in 2014. Nel 1962 scrive The Penitent, sulla storia di Santa Maria Goretti e del suo uccisore, Serenelli. Her heart is preserved in Codogno, where she founded her missionary order. Mother Cabrini School in Caparra Heights, Instituto Cabrini in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ensemble Scolaire Françoise Cabrini in Noisy-le-Grand, France (former orphanage), Colegio Santa Francisca Javier Cabrini in, Santa Cabrini Hospital, founded in 1958 in, St. Frances Cabrini Medical Center and Cancer Institute in, The former St. Cabrini Hospital (c.1946–c.2002) in Chicago, Illinois, which she founded in 1905 as Columbus Hospital, now the site of her.