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She wrote and illustrated them in her Scivias

Kateri was born in upstate New York and was orphaned at an early age when her parents and siblings died of smallpox

those struggling with temptations to impurity and those seeking purity of heart

which she called The Story of a Soul

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Art Print Size:8.5x11" org/wiki/File:George_novgorodFrances Cabrini was the youngest of 13 children, from a village near Milan, Italy. In 1880, when she was 30, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Although she wanted to do missionary work in China, Pope Leo XIII sent her to New York City instead. Mother Frances Cabrini and her sisters organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds.