总统关于圣弗朗西斯·泽维尔·卡布里尼诞辰的致辞

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总统关于圣弗朗西斯·泽维尔·卡布里尼诞辰的致辞
白宫
2026 年 7 月 15 日
今天，我们庆祝圣弗朗西斯·泽维尔·卡布里尼 (Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini) 的生日，她是一位拥有无限信仰和无限慈善事业的女性，一位杰出的意大利裔美国英雄，也是第一位被天主教会封为圣人的美国公民。
弗朗西斯卡·卡布里尼（Francesca Cabrini）从小生活在意大利北部，就知道上帝正在呼召她以传教士的身份服务一生。在成立耶稣圣心传教修女会后，她响应号召，“不是去东方，而是去西方”，在那里她为意大利移民服务，这些移民致力于在美国建立新的生活，同时保持坚定的信仰。
1889 年，卡布里尼修女和她的姐妹们带着对全能上帝坚定不移的信仰来到纽约市，开设了医院、孤儿院和学校，安慰病人、照顾儿童并为疲倦的人提供食物。卡布里尼修女的工作重新点燃了成千上万天主教徒的信仰，并为几代人作为自豪的美国人而蓬勃发展做好了准备。她以不竭的热情迎接每一个挑战和困难，并通过不懈的奉献，在世界各地开设了67家慈善机构。今天，卡布里尼修女开始的遗产通过传教修女会的工作和意大利裔美国人社区继续延续，他们对信仰和家庭的热爱丰富了我们的国家。
圣弗朗西斯·泽维尔·卡布里尼是一位自豪地成为美国公民的移民，她珍视美国作为她心爱的家园，并全心全意地崇敬使我们国家与众不同的美丽、自由和自由。她对共同利益的不懈追求、对耶稣基督的不懈奉献以及她无限的慷慨体现了使美国成为世界上有史以来最伟大的正义力量的美德。
为了表彰她为上帝和国家做出的令人难以置信的一生，教皇庇护十二世于 1946 年册封卡布里尼修女为圣人，使她成为第一位被封为天主教圣人的美国公民。当我们今天庆祝她不朽的遗产时，我们承诺捍卫她所珍视的宝贵自由，在我们的土地上迎来历史性的信仰复兴，并为子孙后代实现美国承诺的全部荣耀。

Briefings & Statements
Presidential Message on the Birthday of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
The White House
July 15, 2026
Today, we celebrate the birthday of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini—a woman of boundless faith and limitless charity, a towering Italian American hero, and the first American citizen ever proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church.
From a young age in Northern Italy, Francesca Cabrini already knew that God was calling her to a life of service as a missionary. After founding the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, she answered the call to go “not to the East, but to the West,” where she ministered to Italian immigrants who worked to build new lives in America while remaining steadfast in their faith.
Arriving in New York City in 1889 with nothing but their unshakable faith in Almighty God, Mother Cabrini and her sisters opened hospitals, orphanages, and schools that comforted the sick, cared for children, and provided for the weary. Mother Cabrini’s work rekindled the faith of thousands of Catholics and prepared generations to flourish as proud Americans. She met every challenge and hardship with an inexhaustible zeal, and through her tireless devotion, she opened 67 charitable institutions across the world. Today, the legacy Mother Cabrini began continues through the work of the Missionary Sisters and through the Italian American community whose deep devotion to faith and family enriches our Nation.
An immigrant who proudly became a citizen of the United States, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini cherished America as her beloved home and revered with all her heart the beauty, freedoms, and liberties that make our Nation exceptional. Her tireless pursuit of the common good, her unceasing devotion to Jesus Christ, and her measureless generosity embody the very virtues that have made America the greatest force for good the world has ever known.
In recognition of her incredible life of service to God and country, Pope Pius XII canonized Mother Cabrini in 1946, making her the first American citizen ever proclaimed as a Catholic saint. As we celebrate her enduring legacy today, we pledge to safeguard the precious freedoms she cherished so deeply, to usher in a historic resurgence of faith across our land, and to steward the full glory of the American promise for generations to come.