Cabrini

[ kuh-bree-nee; Italian kah-bree-nee ]

noun

1. Saint Frances Xavier Mother Cabrini, 1850–1917, U.S. nun, born in Italy; founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Example Sentences

When the Cabrini-Green housing projects started being built in the 1940s, the area’s reputation for violence was long established.

From Time

“Singing for me, is a prayer,” Nozomi Kawaguchi, the Tokyo-born cantor of Mother Cabrini Shrine, said.

From The Daily Beast

He recounted his own prayers to Mother Cabrini in 1998, which he believes aided him in becoming a U.S. citizen.

From The Daily Beast

Cabrini was born in 1850 in Italy, and died in 1917 in Chicago.

From The Daily Beast