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What is Cabrini Day? Colorado celebrates holiday today

Oct 7, 2024, 1:08 PM | Updated: Oct 9, 2024, 8:35 am

Woman power is strong today in Colorado! In honor of the life of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Colorado state legislature created the state holiday in 2020. The amazing thing is this is the first one to celebrate a woman!

As an Italian this always makes my heart happy to celebrate her contribution to our culture in Colorado.

“The first American citizen canonized a saint in 1946 by the Catholic Church, Frances Xavier Cabrini was above all a remarkable humanitarian.  The patron saint of immigrants and one of Colorado’s most significant Italian Americans, Frances Xavier Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850.  In 1880, she founded the order of The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Rome with the purpose of serving the poor, vulnerable, and those on the margins of society in Europe and America.  In 1889, Mother Cabrini came to the United States to help immigrants in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Thirteen years later, she arrived in Colorado to help Denver’s poor Italian immigrants.”

Read more about this holiday and her roots HERE.

 

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