Saint Frances Cabrini Parish is a territorial
parish
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of the
Roman Catholic
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Diocese of San Jose in California. The parish church is located in the
Cambrian Park neighborhood of
San Jose, California
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.
It was founded in the 1950s as a parish of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco; its founding pastor was Fr. Robert Essig. The current church building was built in 1963 in
San Jose, California
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. The parish is named for
superior general
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Frances Cabrini
Frances Xavier Cabrini ( it, Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Catholic religious sister. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, ...
, MSC, the first
American
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citizen to be
canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
See also
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California
External links
Saint Frances Cabrini ParishSaint Frances Cabrini School
References
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California
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