Exciting news! The Archdiocese of New York has designated St. Frances Cabrini Shrine as a sacred pilgrimage site for the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. This means that when you make a pilgrimage to the Shrine during the Jubilee year, attend Mass, make your confession, pray for the intentions of the…
Late in 1917 Mother Cabrini arrived in Chicago thin, weak, and exhausted. Part of the problem, the doctors at Columbus Hospital told her, was that she was suffering a relapse of the malaria she’d acquired in Brazil years before. But at 67, after decades of relentless work and ill health,…
From the time she was a child, Francesca Cabrini dreamed of going to China. As an adult she founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in more than 40 locations across three continents, but she never made it to the Far East. Nine years after Mother Cabrini’s death, six Missionary Sisters (three…
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…
Last week the Shrine was thrilled to welcome the Italian Colony of St. Lucy’s, who drove 124 miles to visit Mother Cabrini’s remains. Their devotion to the patroness of immigrants runs strong, through many generations. Hailing from Scranton, PA, some of the pilgrims had attended the school Mother Cabrini opened…
Last May the Shrine was the first stop on the Manhattan leg of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. Hundreds of people turned out to walk with Jesus through the streets of New York. Among them were the six “perpetual pilgrims” of the Seton Route who committed to walking the entire route…
“How sweet and good it is to go to sea, tired and drained from the work of the missions!” Mother Cabrini wrote on September 1, 1899. In nine months she had done a staggering amount. Her sixth journey to the United States took her to New York, New Jersey, Chicago,…
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was born in 1910. Mother Cabrini lived in the United States after World War I and died in 1917, so we know the two women never met. But it is completely accurate to say that Mother Teresa knew Mother Cabrini…
Paul Moses, author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians, and The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia, joins us to speak on what the New York story—and the personal experiences of St. Frances…
The groups started arriving in late June: a busload of youth from Massachusetts, a bus from Virginia, a group that came by train from the South Bronx. They were all heading to the 50th anniversary of the Neocatechumenal Way, which was to be celebrated on Sunday, July 7 in the…