Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917) was a deeply spiritual and remarkably energetic Italian-American religious sister, celebrated as the Patron Saint of immigrants. Despite her frail health and initial rejection from convents, she was called by her bishop to organize an orphanage, which led her to found the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1880. Her initial dream was to be a missionary in China, but Pope Leo XIII personally redirected her, telling her to g