St frances x cabrini biography sample

Flávia Ghelardi introduces a biography of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini by Theodore Maynard, sharing what she has learned from the life of this dynamic saint.

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I always love to read biographies of saints because I find it very interesting to learn how God acted in that soul, transforming a regular person into one that loved in extraordinary ways.

I get to know the life of someone I can later call my friend in Heaven and ask for his or her intercession.  

I usually read books about saints I already know something about in order to learn more and get more familiar with that friend.

However, this time I got the opportunity to read about a saint I barely knew existed: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, in the book Too Small a World: The Life of Mother Frances Cabrini by Theodore Maynard (Ignatius Press).

 

 

 

The first thing about this book that caught my attention was the way it’s written: it’s a k