September 17 at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel. Manhattan. In 1892. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. the first American saint. and Patroness of Immigrants. set up 10 beds in two East Side tenements. and along with six of her Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. took in the sick and poor. They called this humble beginning Columbus Hospital. Amid the squalor and despair of wave after wave of poor immigrants. the hospital and the Sisters became a haven of love. compassion and caring. It grew and moved to larger and larger quarters. In 1974. it merged with Italian Hospital and was renamed in honor of its visionary founder.
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