St frances cabrini biography of mahatma

"Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us!" This invocation, pronounced for the first time by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII on the day of her Canonization, found an echo throughout the entire world.

On that memorable Sunday, July 7, , the banner of the new saint was triumphantly carried into the Vatican Basilica amidst the applause of 40, people.

St frances cabrini biography of mahatma gandhi

Ordinarily, the Canonization of a saint takes place many years, centuries even, after that person's death. Mother Cabrini's Beatification, however, took place in , only twenty-one years after her death. Pope Pius XII signed the decree of canonization in , and the ceremony elevating her to the altars of the Church was the first one celebrated after the close of World War II.

It would seem that God wished to give the Catholic faithful an example of industriousness.

Indeed, those who do the most for God are those who have the desire (if not always the ability or opportun