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After petitioning the Pope to support her fight against poverty, Francesca Cabrini finds herself in 1889 New York, where she must overcome government resistance, health problems, and anti-immigrant sentiment in order to establish to set up a system of care for society’s most vulnerable. This historical saga tells the true story of the woman who would become the first American citizen to be canonized by the Catholic Church, and whose work touched cities around the world (including Philadelphia).