Hillside in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Chicago's Saint

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

1. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Marker

Inscription.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

[Text on left side of memorial:]
Mother Cabrini was born in Sant Angelo, Lombardy, Italy, July 15,1850. She founded the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1880. In March 1889, she came to the United States and opened schools, orphanages and hospitals in several cities including Chicago. At the age of 67 she died at Columbus Hospital, Chicago, December 22, 1917. Having crossed the ocean twenty-five times and opened sixty-seven institutions throughout the world. In 1909, in Seattle, Washington, she was naturalized as a citizen of the United States. Twenty-one years after her death, Pope Pius XI declared her blessed on November 13, 1938. The decree of her canonization was signed by Pope Pius XII on January 11, 1944, but because of the world war, the actual ceremonies were delayed until July 7, 1946, when she was canonized in Rome—the first saint of the United States.

[Text on right side of memorial:]
O Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who found in the divine heart of Jesus the secret of sanctity and the strength to carry message to many nations, look kindly upon us and hear our prayer. Inspired by Christ's charity you went about helping many in their spiritual and temporal needs; from the glory

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of heaven where your charity is not lessened nor your power weakened, grant our petition and obtain for us the grace we so urgently desire from the sacred heart of Jesus. Obtain that his kingdom may be established in this world, now divided by hatred and dissensions; secure peace among nations, conversion of the sinners, health to the sick, alleviation for the victims of war, deliverance of the souls in purgatory, salvation for the human race redeemed by Christ our savior. Amen.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Charity & Public Work • Religion & Religious Structures. A significant historical date for this entry is July 7, 1946.

Location. 41° 51.287′ N, 87° 54.829′ W. Marker is in Hillside, Illinois, in Cook County. It can be reached from Roosevelt Road (Route 38) ¾ mile west of Wolf Road, on the left when traveling west. The memorial is in the southwestern section of Queen of Heaven Cemetery, about a half-mile south of the Roosevelt Road entrance (through the portion of the property called Our Lady of Sorrows Cemetery) on the north and three-quarters of a mile from the Wolf Road entrance on the east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1400 South Wolf Road, Hillside IL 60162, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Greater Chicago.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: St. Catherine of Siena (within shouting distance of this marker);

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (left side of left panel) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

2. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (left side of left panel)

Saint John Eudes (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (about 700 feet away); Saint Gertrude the Great (approx. 0.2 miles away); Pope Saint Pius X (approx. 0.3 miles away); Our Lady of the Angels School Fire Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away); The Clerics of St. Viator (approx. 0.3 miles away); Saint Cyril (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hillside.

More about this marker. The text on the right side of the memorial is the prayer to Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, first delivered by Cardinal Samuel Stritch of the Archdiocese of Chicago on July 7, 1946.

A separate shrine to Mother Cabrini can be found about ¾ of a mile north of here in Mount Carmel Cemetery, which is on the other side of Roosevelt Road.

Regarding Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. Mother Cabrini was the first American citizen to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born Maria Francesca Cabrini in 1850 in Lombardy, a part of Northern Italy that was then part of the Austrian Empire,

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (right side of left panel) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

3. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (right side of left panel)

Cabrini took religious vows at age 27 and in 1880 joined the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1889 Pope Leo XIII sent Cabrini to New York to serve the Italian immigrant population there. After setting up Columbus Hospital in Manhattan and an orphanage upstate, she came to Chicago, where she also tended to a fast-growing Italian population. In Chicago, Cabrini founded Columbus Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Cabrini died in 1917 and is buried in New York. She was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1938, and in 1946, she was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XII.

The National Shrine to St. Frances Cabrini is located in Chicago in Lincoln Park, near where Columbus Hospital stood until 2002. Cabrini is also (perhaps most famously) one of the namesakes of the Cabrini-Green public housing project on Chicago's near west side; most of it was demolished by the early 2010s, and rowhouses named after Cabrini are the only elements of that that remain. There is also a Cabrini Street that goes through part of the city's Little Italy and South Loop neighborhoods.

Also see . . .
1. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. A bio of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini from a church named in her honor in Lorain, Ohio. (Submitted on June 4, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

2. 175th anniversary: St. Frances Cabrini: a saint for Chicago, America

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (left side of right panel) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

4. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (left side of right panel)

. From Chicago Catholic, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. (Submitted on June 4, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (right side of right panel) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

5. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (right side of right panel)

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

6. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean Flynn, May 30, 2024

7. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini memorial

Mother Cabrini embraces a young child in the statue at the center of this shrine at Queen of Heaven Cemetery.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) image. Click for full size.

Courtesy of Library of Congress

8. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917)

Credits. This page was last revised on June 25, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 4, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 291 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on June 4, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 8. submitted on May 14, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.