The saint who was afraid of the sea: a bedtime story

A new Little Lamps bedtime story: Frances Cabrini feared deep water and crossed the Atlantic about thirty times for immigrant children. Free, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Frances Cabrini and the Big Water is the newest Little Lamps story, for ages 3 to 8 and about eight minutes aloud (text only for now; the audio folders are over the repository's size cap). Her memorial is the 13th of November.

What the story keeps from her life: the Pope sent her west to Italian immigrants instead of east to China, the promised house in New York was not ready in 1889, and she crossed the Atlantic about thirty times. What it labels as remembered rather than documented: the childhood fright at the river and the paper boats. The Pope's words are a paraphrase, not a quotation, and the note for grown-ups says so.

The story is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and is not an official Church text.

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