Cabrini
[ kuh-bree-nee; Italian kah-bree-nee ]
/ kəˈbri ni; Italian kɑˈbri ni /
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noun
Saint Frances Xavier "Mother Cabrini", 1850–1917, U.S. nun, born in Italy; founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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How to use Cabrini in a sentence
When the Cabrini-Green housing projects started being built in the 1940s, the area’s reputation for violence was long established.
“Singing for me, is a prayer,” Nozomi Kawaguchi, the Tokyo-born cantor of Mother Cabrini Shrine, said.
He recounted his own prayers to Mother Cabrini in 1998, which he believes aided him in becoming a U.S. citizen.
Cabrini was born in 1850 in Italy, and died in 1917 in Chicago.