On this coming Saturday, June 20th, Pope Leo XIV plans to visit the northern Italian village of Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, where he will venerate a saint close to his heart and ours: Mother Frances Cabrini, who was born there in 1850 and died in 1917 in Chicago, the pope’s hometown.
To read the entire guest essay that appeared in the June 17th New York Times written by Dr. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a Catholic historian and the Board Chair Emeritus of the National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Chicago, please click here