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Immigrant Saint : The Life of Mother Cabrini by di Donato, Pietro is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Immigrant Saint : The Life of Mother Cabrini about?
Francesca Maria Cabrini was born in 1850 in a small village on the Lombard Plain of Italy. At the moment of her birth, a cloud of snow-white doves appeared and circled the village, an augury of her future sanctity. Tiny frail and sickly, she was enthralled as a child by tales of the adventures of missionaries to faraway lands, and grew up with one burning desire: to join a religious order and tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the people of China. But no order would have her—her health was deemed too precarious. But her dream remained, and she set out to see it realized. Her first step, a formidable one, was obtaining an audience with His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII. This she did, after overcoming many obstacles. It was a meeting that would change her life, and the lives of so many in America. Mother Cabrini was granted her wish to start an orphanage abroad—but not in China, as she had requested. “Not East, but West, my child,” said Pope Leo, and her path was set. PIETRO DI DONATO'S Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini is a powerful nonfiction account of a woman whose gripping story of perseverance, courage, and profound godliness serves as a paradigm for the new age of
Who reads Immigrant Saint : The Life of Mother Cabrini?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- di Donato, Pietro
- Publisher
- Papamoa Press : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 1945
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781787204218
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Education, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14