St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first American citizen to be canonized and is the patron saint of immigrants. A new statue of her will be erected in Chicago’s Little Italy. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Credit: Public domain By Francesca Pollio Fenton February 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET A statue …

On November 13, the universal Church honors c, an Italian missionary who spent much of her life working with Italian immigrants in the United States. Mother Cabrini, who had a deathly fear of water and drowning, crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than 30 times in service of the Church and …