Photo of Mother Cabrini in 1880, the year she founded her order

When Mother Cabrini arrived in the U.S. in 1889, her first school was held in the balcony of a church. Resources were so scarce that the students — street kids, orphans, and children with little family support — had to use pews for desks. Yet the children thrived academically and…

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