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And we're back with our American stories. And all month long in October, it's Italian American Heritage Month. And up next, the remarkable life of Mother Cabrini, the Italian Catholic missionary nun who became the first American citizen to be canonized as a saint. Here to tell her story is Claudia McAdam. Author of the children's book Mother Cabrini: A Heart for the World, which was published by the Sophia Institute in collaboration with Angel Studios, film Cabrini.
Take it away, Claudia. She was born in 1850, and she arrived early, two months premature. Her family lived in the countryside north of Milan in Italy, and on the day that she was being born, her family told this story for years, where a flock of white doves came down and surrounded their house, and one of them alighted in the vines outside a window until she was born, and they considered that to be a harbinger of good things to come for their Maria Francesca Cabrini. Because she was two months premature, her health was not good, and they had her baptized immediately on the day she was born, fearing that she may not live. And by the grace of God, she did, and she grew up there in the countryside.
And her family was deeply religious, very Catholic family, and her father would read to the children stories of the saints and of missionaries, in particular, and Francesca Cabrini fell in love with Saint Francis Xavier, who lived in the first half of the 1500s, and he was one of the founders of the Jesuits. And he had a missionary charism, and so he traveled to India, to Japan, and he was on his way to China when he died of illness. And she wanted to be a missionary like him, and she wanted to go to China, and that was. That was her whole goal as a child was to become this missionary who could travel the world, especially to China. She was so devoted to this task that even as a child, she would make boats out of paper, paper boats, and put little violets in them, and then set them sailing down the water.
As she called them, her missionaries. She would send them off to. You're going to India. You're going to South America. You know.
You're going to China, and she would pray for her missionary flowers to go off to do what she hoped to do when she grew up. But as she grew up, she never got that opportunity because she was ill a lot of the time. She wanted to join a religious community, and she was repeatedly denied because of her frail health.
So she was put in charge of an orphanage in Italy, and she did very well with it, despite the the women that she worked with giving her a pretty hard time. She was very young; she wasn't even twenty five when she was running this orphanage, and she would have. Good days, and then she would have poor days. I think she had a lot of respiratory and heart issues even as a child, and she had bad spells of being confined to bed and being ill. But many times she just overcame that, and she said, "There's work to be done," and she just got up and and did it.
But she always battled ill health, and throughout her life, she would go to the doctors for her annual visit, and then doctors would say. I'm sorry to tell you this, but you probably only have a year to live. And she said, "Well, then I better get to work." And because she could not join a religious order, she established one of her own, and she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, because there were like-minded young women who wanted to to serve, and she envisioned in her mind this would be a missionary. Order that would go off, hopefully, to the far east to spread the word of God. That was the very beginning of her missionary zeal.
She was very sure that she should go to China, and her local bishop said, "I don't think so. I think you're being called somewhere else." And so she went to Rome to visit with Pope Leo the Thirteenth and to tell him of her desire to be a missionary sister in China, and he said, "You know that the." Italian immigrants in the New World in America have it really, really rough. They they need people to minister to their needs, their physical and spiritual needs.
So he said, "Not to the East, I am sending you, but to the West." And so that's how she was sent to the United States in eighteen eighty nine. You know, they arrived, and she did not know English. One of the sisters, thankfully, could speak English, but they arrived on the shores in New York. Nobody was there to meet them. The Archbishop didn't realize they were coming.
Then they weren't prepared. Nobody was ready to to take her and her sisters in.
So they wandered the streets of New York. They spent their first nights in a run down tenement in the Italian neighborhood. They were petrified because it was a rough neighborhood. I mean, they they blockaded themselves in their room and prayed all night. They, I don't think they slept at all.
But she finally hooked up with the Archbishop to say, "Hey, here I am." And he said, "I think you need to go back to Italy. We're not really ready for you." And I mean, she was not going to turn around and get on a boat and sail across the Atlantic.
So she she said, "No." She pulled out a piece of paper that the Pope had given her, and she said, "No, the Pope sent me, and I'm staying." And she gave that to the Archbishop. And what's he going to say? Oh, okay, I all right.
So she stayed. They eventually got their feet on the ground, so to speak. And despite the fact that she herself and her sisters encountered a lot of prejudice, I mean, here they were women, Catholics, Italian immigrants. They were not welcome by a lot of the people that they encountered, and she just persevered. The Italian immigrants were working very dangerous jobs, frequently losing their lives doing so.
Sometimes the families could no longer support their children, or one or both parents died of disease or accident.
So there were a lot of orphans or abandoned children who needed caring for. They needed their physical needs met. Where she's so smart that if an Italian immigrant wanted to purchase a piece of land, say, and Mother Cabrini would try to assist in that endeavor, she would want to make sure that they got a fair deal.
So she used shoelaces to measure out the boundaries of this property to make sure that they weren't being cheated, that they were getting what they should get. She obviously didn't have a tape measure; she used shoelaces. But not only that, she recognized that they needed their spiritual Needs met too, so she started catechism classes in schools and began instructing the children and the adults in their faith and helping them. And began establishing herself, opening up a school and an orphanage, and.
Soliciting funds, she wanted to approach the wealthy New Yorkers to help her with her ministry, and the Archbishop said, "No, no, I don't want you to go to them. You need to raise the funds from the Italian immigrants." And she thought, "Well, these are the people I'm trying to help. They have nothing." But she did. She went around to them, and they helped as they could. But she was such a smart woman.
She used the power of the press, and an article was written about her work. It was in the New York papers, and she didn't just tell what they were doing. She took the reporter and anyone who was interested to the areas where the people needed help, the the slums and the tenements, and and these poor children who were abandoned on the streets. And she exposed those people to the plight of these Italian immigrants. And then the article that was written for the newspaper.
Brought her enormous publicity and brought in actually funds from those New Yorkers, from whom she didn't deliberately, you know, solicit money, but they were compelled to help fund what she was doing, and that was the germ of her blossoming empire, really, across the United States and across the world. She had a mission, and she was going to do it. She was confident in what needed to be done. I think that's what she was driven by was the need to accomplish what she saw in front of her. When you have that kind of laser focus.
The possibilities of what could go wrong, or who might not like me, or what kind of impression might I leave—I think those things fall away because you're guided by a singular light. You know what it is that needs to be done. You trust in the one who sent you to do this, and you know what you are doing. In her case, was for the greater glory of God, and there's no greater mission than that. And you've been listening to Claudia McAdam tell the story.
Of Mother Cabrini, and what a story! From her birth, she well fell in love with Saint Francis Xavier. The dream always to be a missionary and go around the world, but especially to China. And the Pope, of course, well, you heard what he did. He said, "No, you're not heading east.
You're heading west." And heading west to take care of those Italian Catholic Americans who were being discriminated against, and moreover, were living in just the very worst conditions. And that is where she finds her mission. And when we come back, more of this story of Mother Cabrini on our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past two hundred and fifty years, and now it takes form in a new way.
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Something happened to her when she was about ten. She was floating her little missionary paper boats down the stream, and she fell in. And nearly drowned, and no one really could recall how or who rescued her. All of a sudden, she was back on the bank, but she was nearly drowned. And when they brought her home, the doctors told her parents that he did not think she would recover, but she did, and she didn't let that stop her.
However, she had a fear of water from then on, and yet this—I mean, she's this five-foot-tall little Italian. Religious sister who got on a boat to cross the Atlantic to go to her mission in New York, and despite her fear of water, and it was a really rough crossing, but she and her sisters tended to the needs of the. The immigrants that were in steerage, they were sick. The the boat, I mean, it was a really dangerous crossing, and they made it across. And despite her fear of water, she put her trust in the Lord.
She ended up going back and forth across the Atlantic more than two dozen times. And I can imagine her standing at the rail, watching those turbulent seas, and just praying for safe crossing. And she did. When she found it, an orphanage in New York, in West Park, New York, which is north of Manhattan on the banks of the Hudson River, she bought property from the Jesuits who were running an oviset there, and they were happy to unload it because it didn't have running water. They had to haul water up from the Hudson River, and Mother Cabrini bought the property anyway.
And she surveyed the property, and walked around, and decided she stopped at a certain place, and she said, "Dig here." They dug, and a spring of water came up, and it was enough to to run that whole property, the house that was there that became an orphanage, and it's still providing water today. And she didn't stay in New York. I mean, she went all the way across the country, East Coast to West Coast, Louisiana to Chicago. She crisscrossed the country, establishing her orphanages and schools and hospitals and. It was dangerous crossing the American West on a train in those days.
There were still train robberies, and in one instance, her train was robbed, and someone fired a bullet into the carriage where she was sitting, and went through the glass. The bullet lodged itself behind her head in the in the wood of the seat behind her head. She had just leaned forward to speak to one of her sisters when that shot came through, and she missed being killed. She always depended on the providence of God. She knew she was in His hands to do with as He wanted for as long as He wanted.
I marvel at what she accomplished in those days, in frail health, and you know, with language barriers, and she ended up running a huge entrepreneurial operation of these institutions. In South America, Central America, North America, she established convents in Europe, and she had homes and orphanages there. The amount of work she did—of course, she had her sisters, and she had other people that helped—and the American contacts she made helped. But she was the driving force behind so many of these initiatives and institutions that she founded, and. You know, I don't think you can do that unless you are graced by God, and she obviously was.
But she she's a role model for never say never. You know, if you get you find an obstacle, you go around it. One of the hospitals she founded in Chicago, somebody cut the water lines before it was open in winter, and it flooded and froze the building, and. They got that fixed, and then there was an attempted arson of the facility, and you know gasoline was poured and a fire was started, but it was extinguished. And instead of Mother Cabrini giving up, she said, "Okay, we're going to move patients in right now." And so she did the next day, and she began filling that hospital.
She wasn't intimidated by people working against her. I mean, really working against her, sabotaging her works. Supported by my beloved, none of these adversities can shake me. But if I trust in myself, I will fall. The fortitude she exhibited is just amazing.
You know, she established her main work in New York when she first arrived, and then she went on to found hospitals and schools and orphanages in New York, in New Orleans, in South America, and when she was in Louisiana. There were anti-Italian riots going on, which she survived, and a yellow fever epidemic, which, of course, with her frail health, could have been the end of her there. And she arrives in Chicago in 1899, and she opens the Assumption School for Italians, and she founds a Columbus Hospital, and then they needed another hospital in Chicago, so she founded the Columbus Extension Hospital. She even advises a future saint, Saint Catherine Drexel, who came to her for some advice on opening up schools for kids. Mother Cabrini established missions in Denver and Seattle, in California.
She went to South America, where she even, you know, traveled on a mule to go from place to place. I can't imagine where she got the time to do everything she did. When she came to Colorado in the early 1900s, she established an orphanage in Denver, and she wanted a a getaway place for the girls to come in the summer.
So she went to Lookout Mountain, which is just west of Denver, just west of Golden, Colorado. And on Lookout Mountain, she bought this property where she could erect a summer camp for the girls.
Now you're up on a mountain. There's no water there. They had to haul water from the canyon up, which would not do, of course.
So, she went out with her sisters, walked the property, stopped, pointed to a rock, and said, "Move that rock and dig there." They did, and a spring sprang up. That water still flows today. She. Just had the power of the Lord working through her. Her intercessory prayers were amazing.
What she could accomplish through prayer—I mean, she sent one of her nuns, her sisters, to a. A merchant to buy supplies that they needed, or to obtain, I should say, supplies. And the sister assumed that this merchant would be donating the merchandise, but she got there and said what she wanted, and he said that'll be forty lira. And she's like, "I don't have any money. Can you just give it to us?" And he's like, "No, forty lira." So she went home and she said, "Mother, I I was not able to obtain what we needed.
I didn't have any money." Mother Cabrini said, "Turn your pockets out," and she turned her pockets out, and she had a rosary and a Kleenex or you know a handkerchief or something like that. No money, so Mother said, "Okay, let me pray." So she stopped and she prayed. She turned back to the sister and she said, "Okay, check your pockets one more time." She did, and there were two twenty lira notes in her pocket, enough to pay the cost of what they needed at the merchants. It. I wish that could happen for me.
My, I my prayers are answered, but never as demonstrably as that. I don't think. But she she had a way with doing the Lord's will and and knowing that He was on her side. I mean, her favorite Bible verse and and the motto she lived by is Philippians four thirteen. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and she could.
And you've been listening to Claudia McAdam, and she's the author of the children's book *Mother Cabrini: A Heart for the World*, and of course, what she faced in Louisiana. A site, by the way, for mass lynchings of Italian Americans. One of the largest mass lynchings in world history happened in Louisiana, and it was Italian American Catholics who were lynched. Lots of discrimination she faced along the way as well for simply being a woman. But there was that power of the Lord at her back, always working through her.
When we come back, more of this remarkable story—the story of Mother Cabrini—on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past two hundred and fifty years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 semi-quintennial coin and medal program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage.
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Next day on Hulu. And we return to our American stories, and to the story of the life of Mother Cabrini. When we last left off, Claudia McAdam shared the Bible verse that became Mother Cabrini's life motto and the faith that sustained her through so much. Let's return to Claudia with the rest of the story. Her tenderness comes through in so many ways.
I mean, she lived out the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, which are tenets by which we are supposed to live. Where the corporal works of mercy take care of the the physical beings, you know, people around us, and the spiritual works of mercy tend to their spiritual needs. But she, I think, she did every one of the corporal works of mercy perfectly. She saw somebody who was hungry. She would feed them, thirsty.
Give them drink. She would visit the imprisoned and. When she learned English well enough, she would help their cases by helping translate for them. I think she mentioned to one of the sisters that she hoped she would learn the English language before she died because I think she struggled with it. But she helped herself learn the language by reading Italian and English newspapers—the same story in each newspaper, side by side—to help her learn that language.
And I mean, she ran a Huge empire, with her limited amount of English, but gradually she she became better and better versed in English.
So much so that then she would serve as an interpreter for some of the Italian immigrants. She knew enough to be able to speak English on their behalf.
So that just shows the strength of her character and her wanting to be able to help in every way she could and to be able to manage the affairs of this. Ministry that she had to the best of her ability, you know she visit the sick and the homeless, and everything she did was to take care of the body and the spirit. I mean, she would admonish the sinner and and counsel the the sorrowful and and help bury the dead and and pray for them. Just it's her whole body of work. Just who she was.
Just a living. Light in this world to take care of the needs of people around her. Make me work much for you. Make me lead many souls to your divine heart. We shall have an eternity to rest.
Miracles were wrought during her lifetime through her prayers. Another instance: a sister came to her and said, "Mother, you know we're out of milk. We have no milk. The container is completely empty." And she said, "Go check again." She checked and she said, "No." And this other sister confirmed, "We have no milk." So Mother Cabrini bowed her head and prayed, and looked up and said to her sister, "I want you to check one more time." And of course, when she went back, the container was absolutely full of milk.
So through her prayers, the Lord was able to bring these miracles about during her lifetime. In 1912, she was in Italy visiting her religious sisters there, and her plan was to travel through Europe through. France and Spain, and on to England, to visit the houses she had established there in those countries, and then she was going to sail back from England to North America.
So, her sisters in England bought her a ticket on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. That's how she was to sail back. And while she was still in Italy, word came to her that there was an urgent problem at. One of the hospitals she had established in Chicago, they were the hospital was overflowing, and there was important work underway to expand it. That she was needed to come and to help negotiate that situation and to help raise the money.
So she changed her plans of sailing home from England and instead left right away from Naples and sailed to America. And of course, she missed the sailing of the Titanic. She and another sister who were supposed to be on board. She wrote about that later, and she said that divine providence had not allowed her to go to London and then on to take the Titanic.
So she credited the Lord with saving her life and keeping her off that ship. But wow, for someone afraid of water, just to know that you could have been on that ship, I think is an amazing tale. You know, she understood the immigrant experience because she was one. She knew what it was like to to leave your home, to go somewhere where you didn't speak the language, where people did not necessarily want you there. Where you were discriminated against, to try to make a new and better life, so she could relate to that.
She didn't think you could, you know, you should just not be an American citizen. You could embrace that, and the culture and traditions of the places that you came from. She became an American citizen nine years before her death. She loved this country and loved her Italian heritage, and was a a model for other immigrants. You know, you can love this country, become a citizen of this country, and still love your homeland and the traditions of those places.
And she she did that extraordinarily well. She didn't just talk about helping immigrants; she actually did something.
So she showed faith lived out. She says, "You don't you don't tell people what faith looks like; you show them." Mother Cabrini once said, "Is a quote that I love. The impressions of childhood are never obliterated. I think that's why she had such a fondness for children. Is because she knew she could make their lives better, and that the impressions they got from her caring and from the education that they would get, and the better life that she could help provide for them." That would carry them through the rest of their lives, and it would never be obliterated.
And I, I think that her story is one that we can take those lessons away, and those lessons will never be obliterated in the lives of any of us who come to know and to love her and what she's done, and the reason she did what she did, all for the greater glory of God, is what she said, and that's how she lived her life. And it's a terrific example for any of us who might want to follow in her steps. She never retired. She go go go go go. In in nineteen seventeen, in December, she went to the hospital in Chicago, and the day before she died, she was wrapping Christmas treats for the children.
And the next day, on December twenty second, she came ill and died quietly at the hospital she had established. And she was sixty seven years old.
So, for a woman who was born two months premature, who nearly drowned as a ten year old, who was told every year you probably have a year to live, she was blessed with a life that was long and bountiful, and her work impacted so many people. And still does in the United States, in North America, and in South America and Europe, and now even in Asia. She never got to Asia as she wanted to, but after her death, her missionary sisters did get to China and establish institutions there until the communists kicked them out in the mid 20th century. But her her vision of reaching China. Did come about through her sisters after her death.
You know, she's the the patron saint of immigrants and first American citizen to be canonized a saint. And I think she's a wonderful role model. I mean, even if we just do one of the things she did, you know, sheltering the homeless or or providing food and drink for you know through a food bank or However, we might want to take that impulse that we get from reading about her, learning about her, and incorporating it into our lives. If we just do each of us just did one thing, think of how much better a world we would have if we just used her as inspiration and as an example of what she believed. She could do all things through Christ who strengthened her, and so can I.
So can you.
So can anybody. We were lucky to have her here. We were lucky that Pope Leo the Thirteenth said to the West, not to the East. He sent her to America, and I think America and every country that her works touched deeply benefited from that. I see it as a ripple that keeps flowing out from the source.
That particular hospital she founded may not exist anymore, but the mission that she began does, and that effect—you can't, you can't just conjure it up. It has to be initiated by somebody, and she was that somebody. You're the one who does it all. I'm only the spectator of the great and wonderful works you perform, and a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Madison Derrickot. And a special thanks to Claudia Macadam, author of the children's book Mother Cabrini: A Heart for the World.
What a story! And her corporal works of mercy, her spiritual works of mercy, unparalleled. What she did in the end was take care of the body and the spirit—the things that Jesus Christ commanded of all Christians. And she also had a special heart. For the immigrant experience, she was one herself, and this thing to go overseas to cross oceans, not knowing what comes next—new languages, and by the way, lots of people who might not want you there.
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