RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Frances Xavier Cabrini

1850 - 1917

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Frances Xavier Cabrini (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; born Maria Francesca Cabrini; 15 July 1850 – 22 December 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint. Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC), a religious institute that today provides education, health care, and other services to the poor in 15 nations. During her lifetime, Cabrini established 67 schools, orphanages and other social service institutions in Italy, the United States and other nations. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Xavier Cabrini is the 876th most popular religious figure (up from 2,536th in 2019), the 1,148th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,465th in 2019) and the 290th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Frances Xavier Cabrini ranks 876 out of 3,187Before her are Sa'id bin Zayd, Onesimus, Acacius of Constantinople, Mary of Bethany, Sergius of Radonezh, and Mechtilde. After her are Antipope Paschal, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Louise de Marillac, Brother Roger, Peter of Verona, and Therese Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Frances Xavier Cabrini ranks 21Before her are Pierre Loti, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Oliver Heaviside, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Lluís Domènech i Montaner. After her are William Morris Davis, Lafcadio Hearn, Besarion Jughashvili, Ignác Goldziher, César Ritz, and Victoriano Huerta. Among people deceased in 1917, Frances Xavier Cabrini ranks 23Before her are John William Waterhouse, Ludwig Minkus, Mackenzie Bowell, Scott Joplin, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, and Radomir Putnik. After her are Jean Gaston Darboux, Ranavalona III, Léon Bloy, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Adolph Wagner, and Hugo Simberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Frances Xavier Cabrini ranks 1,148 out of 5,161Before her are Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Eleonora Gonzaga (1630), Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812), Mina (1940), and Salvador Luria (1912). After her are Johann Maria Farina (1685), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Mario Capecchi (1937), Ettore Scola (1931), Eleonora Gonzaga (1598), and Antonio Caldara (1670).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Frances Xavier Cabrini ranks 290Before her are Saint Cajetan (1480), Antipope Ursicinus (400), Antipope Boniface VII (1000), Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901), Melania the Younger (383), and Renato Martino (1932). After her are Peter of Verona (1206), Carlo Maria Martini (1927), Saint Maurus (512), Caesar Baronius (1538), Agostino Casaroli (1914), and Antipope Nicholas V (1260).