Saving Mother Cabrini’s Bench In April we wrote about the history of Mother Cabrini’s prayer bench, which is memorialized in the mosaic at the Shrine. The effort to restore the bench so that you can use it as St. Cabrini did is now underway. On a drizzly morning in April…
Cardinal Spellman Arrives for the Dedication of the Shrine On May 10, 1960, eight hundred Mother Cabrini High School girls lined Fort Washington Avenue, while those in the senior class stood in the driveway. When Francis Cardinal Spellman arrived and saw the sight he unexpectedly had his car stopped. He…
On June 2, 1951 a young deacon named Peter Smith was ordained to the priesthood in the chapel at Mother Cabrini High School. His unusual path to the priesthood began shortly after his birth. Peter was born on March 13, 1921 at Columbus Hospital in New York, one of the…
ON December 19, 1959 dozens of clergy, multitudes of Missionary Sisters, a judge, the captain of the 34th Precinct, and various others including “an author of Marian plays and filmstrips” gathered at 701 Fort Washington Avenue for the consecration of the main altar of the brand-new St. Frances Cabrini Shrine….
A section of the mosaic showing Mother Cabrini tending to a disabled child. Credit Emon Hassan for The New York Times By Michael Luongo Born in Italy in 1850, Mother Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, often called the Cabrini order, to help the poor….