schools, and hospitals in New York and Chicago, later branching out to New Orleans and even farther south: to Nicaragua and Grenada. She started her first hospital, Columbus Hospital, in New York with just four gifts of $50 each! She even did missionary work among the Italian miners in Colorado, going down mine shafts and tunnels to teach them English and the Catholic faith. Ultimately, Mother Frances became a U.S. citizen herself.

Finally, full of joy yet worn out by her labors, Mother Frances made a visit to Rome in 1910 and asked the prefect of her congregation, Cardinal Vives y Tuto, to relieve her of her responsibilities as head of her religious order so she could spend her final years in contemplation. But the Cardinal had secretly conspireda strange sentiment for a Christmas card, she replied, "Leave it as it is."

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini died quietly in her room on Dec. 22, 1917, and was canonized in 1946. She was the first citizen of the United States to be named a saint.

III.
Our third example can be dealt with very briefly because we know so little about the details of his life. He was a common laborer and called a "just man" in the Bible. He did little else, according to the Scriptures, than protect and provide for his family. He disappears from the scene some time after his foster son's twelfth birthday. We have no record at all of any words he spoke, nor did he ever write anything as far as we know.

His name