On this episode of Our American Stories Francesca Cabrini dreamed of becoming a missionary in China Instead Pope Leo XIII sent the Italian nun west to the United States where thousands of Italian immigrants were struggling with poverty discrimination dangerous work and life in a country whose language many did not yet speak Claudia Cangilla McAdam author of Mother Cabrini A Heart for the World shares the story of how Cabrini overcame frail health prejudice and seemingly endless obstacles to build schools orphanages hospitals and missions across America and around the world An immigrant herself Cabrini eventually became an American [... more]