FRANCES CABRINI

“Mother of immigrants”

From 1889 to 1917 Mother Cabrini worked among Italian immigrants and, together with her Missionary Sisters, responded to their socio-religious needs. Sr. Mary Louis Sullivan, M.S.C., the biographer of Mother Cabrini, talks about Cabrini’s influence on the shaping of American Catholic history, of women’s history in the United States and of the great European migration of the 19th and early 20th centuries.