women’s missionary society with the motto, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13). In 1889 Pope Leo XIII directed her not east, but west, to work among the neglected immigrants who were pouring into New York. Concerned with nursing, child care, education and other welfare work, she traveled widely and established sixty-seven houses—one for every year of her life. Mother Cabrini was canonized in 1946 (an unusually speedy process) and is regarded as the patron saint of