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America's first saint Mother Frances Cabrini's work among immigrants made a real difference here Series: MAKING HISTORY: WOMEN WHO SHAPED ILLINOIS
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Every place she ever worked considers Mother Cabrini, the first
American saint, its own: Chicago, New York, Seattle, Denver, New
Orleans, parts of Latin America and Europe and her native Italy.
The frail but indomitable "Little Nun," for whom the first units
of the Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green housing complex are
named, spent only a few years in Chicago, but had a huge impact on
the city, particularly on its Italian immigrant community.
She came to build a school, stayed to build two hospitals and was
in her tiny room at Columbus Hospital, weak from a bout of malaria,
when a ...
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Les saisons en enfer du jeune Ayyaz.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
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Magazine article from: Journal of World History
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Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...title, Akbar digresses to survey the history of jihad in India. Here he details the victories of warlords, such as Mahmud of Ghazna, over Hindu populations. In the context of Indian history, the author makes the briefest reference--a single...
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