
BY: Peter Feuerherd
In a neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan known for its bodegas, Latin music and vibrant street life, people come to pray directly to Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants. At the St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, the saint, enclosed in glass, is dressed in her habit, her pallid face in peaceful repose. Tourists and worshipers trickle in regularly, and a small faith community has grown since the shrine opened in 1959. It hosts tours for school children from the South Bronx and charter buses from the suburbs.
Cabrini, who died in 1917, was declared a saint in the Roman Catholic Church in 1946, the first U.S. citizen to be so honored. Born in 1850, she arrived in New York in 1889 from Italy with sisters from the community she founded, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
SOURCE: https://www.ncronline.org/
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