Mother Cabrini

How a statue haunted me for more than 20 years

Barbara Cleary
Catholic Way Home
Published in
5 min readJan 31, 2024

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St. Frances Xavier (Mother) Cabrini (Courtesy of anastpaul.wordpress.com)

It seems the Lord never gives up even when I shy away from, put off, or just plain avoid his nudges to do something worthwhile.

Take, for example, this piece on Mother Cabrini. At least 20 years ago (likely more) we hosted in our home a group of people from our church to meet and listen to the late John Vennari, then editor and…

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Barbara Cleary
Catholic Way Home

Catholic wife/mom/Nan to four grandchildren. Writing about my faith, and life in a chaotic multigenerational home while trying to see the humor in it all.