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Francis Xavier Cabrini Shrine. She was the youngest of thirteen children. She helped her parents work the family farm, but from an early age she was drawn to a missionary life and service to God. In , with seven other young women, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Although Mother Cabrini had always hoped to go to China as a missionary, she did as the Pope asked her.

Mother Cabrini arrived in New York in March, Immediately on her arrival she visited Archbishop Corrigan and told him of her plans to start an orphanage. The Archbishop was doubtful that this newly arrived woman could overcome all the problems involved in starting such an institution and tried to dissuade her. With her unshakeable faith in God, Mother Cabrini started her orphanage anyway.

She won over the Archbishop and together they began raising money. By July, , Mother Cabrini had managed to buy acres along the Hudson river.

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For weeks the Sisters had to haul water from the river, but after praying to Our Lady, a natural spring was discovered on the property. In , Mother Cabrini discovered this property as she drove her horse and buggy to what was then a remote northwest edge of New York City. The only buildings in this very rural area of Manhattan were the villas of the wealthy.

She often stopped and rested at the villa during her worldwide travels spent in the task of establishing sixty-seven schools, hospitals, and other institutions of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She became a naturalized citizen in The original buildings were demolished in to allow for the construction of the present main school building that was opened in as Mother Cabrini High School.