We forget that e.g. the Ku Klux Klan was founded to persecute Catholics and Jews; Blacks were an afterthought.
Do you know who was the first USA citizen to be canonized? Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini!
...I mention Mother Cabrini today only because it is her one hundredth anniversary. She was struck down by dysentery while wrapping Christmas presents for the poor; died the 22nd of December, 1917. But she is still at work, praying for us, and we ought to thank her occasionally.
Her name is familiar to me because of the shrine to her visible from I-70 in Colorado west of Denver. Read David Warren's post here to learn more about her.
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