History and Background

Mother Cabrini High School

MCHS in Spring Mother Cabrini High School was founded in 1899 by St. Frances Xavier Cabrini and continues to be sponsored by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order she founded. What began as a “residential school for young ladies” remains today an institution dedicated to secondary education of young women. Mother Cabrini High School is among the nation’s award winning schools and is the only Catholic High School in New York State to receive the U.S. Department of Education “Blue Ribbon School of Excellence” award for 1997-98. MCHS previously won the award in 1986-87.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Frances Cabrini was born on July 15, 1850 in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy. The tenth of eleven children, she was born small and weak and many feared she would live only a few years. Her parents were peasants, and both possessed a deep faith that they passed on to their children. After living her young life devoted to Jesus and his works, she made her religious profession in 1877 at age 27. Mother Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1880. She made her first visit to the United States in March in 1889. She opened schools, orphanages and hospitals in several cities serving the poor and marginated. She became a naturalized citizen in 1909. At the age of 67 she died in Chicago’s Columbus Hospital on December 22, 1917. Mother Cabrini crossed the ocean twenty-five times and opened sixty-seven institutions in nine countries, on three continents. She was declared blessed by Pope Pius XI on November 13, 1938. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII on July 7, 1946 and is known as the patron saint of immigrants. Mother Cabrini’s feast day is November 13.

The Missionary Sisters of The Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cabrini Sisters) continue to thrive as an institution 127 years after its founding by Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. The Sisters continue to work in many apostolic efforts begun by Mother Cabrini, besides reaching out and serving new needs, in fifteen countries. The Cabrinian Mission Statement challenges the Sisters and their lay collaborators to be about the work of evangelization and the promotion of human dignity.

Mother Cabrini High School Board of Trustees

Mr. Jack Abruzzo
Ms. Marcelle Caccioppoli, ‘52
Mr. Miguel Fittipaldi, JD
Sr. Catherine Garry, MSC, ‘56
Mr. Richard Lissemore, Chairperson
Mrs. Paula Greco-McTigue, ‘61
Mr. Francis Kairson, Jr.
Mr. Thomas Mauriello
Sr. Diane Olmstead, MSC
Honorable Faviola Soto
Sr. Mary Louise Sullivan, MSC
Sr. Julia Toto, MSC
Dr. Belinda Velazquez, MD
Most Reverend Gerald Walsh

Administration

Mr. Brian Donahue, Head of School
Ms. Joan Close, Dean of Academics
Ms. Susan Fraleigh, Dean of Student Life
Ms. Erin Cicalese, Director of Advancement
Mr. George Donaghy, Director of Finance

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