Schools

Mother Cabrini was a passionate teacher. Even before becoming a religious, she taught as a schoolteacher in the small Italian town of Vidardo.
From the beginning, therefore, she had a great concern for the world of education and schooling.
After founding the Institute of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, one of her main concerns was precisely education.
From the very beginning she founded schools and orphanages, certain that in order to create a more just society, one must start precisely with the protection and education of the youngest.

Education was for Francesca Cabrini the privileged means of making known, from the earliest age, the love of
God to boys and girls, to families, to the neighborhood, to workers, to anyone who came in contact with the mission.
Schools, boarding schools, orphanages, parishes, oratories, care centers, hospitals, were centers and means of evangelization. Evangelization thus took on educational characteristics that aimed to form good Christians and upright citizens from childhood.

“Good Christians” and ”Good Citizens.” The work, educational mission and pedagogy of St. Frances Cabrini, Sr. Maria Barbagallo, msc.

Mosaic of Francesca Cabrini meastra in Vidardo, Italy.

Mother Cabrini tells us about “Education of the Heart.”

“Educating the heart” is the core of Mother Cabrini's educational method. As has been reiterated many times by the commentaries dedicated to St. Frances Cabrini, the Saint desired that the education she proposed, accomplish the itinerary “from the Heart of Christ to the heart of humanity” and, in this case, to the heart of the child or young person.
The education of the heart must come to persuasion, to involve the young in the process of their growth, to make them participate in their progress without violently imposing the good, but making them love it. And it contributes to forming a strong personality.

“Good Christians” and ”Good Citizens.” The work, educational mission and pedagogy of St. Frances Cabrini, Sr. Maria Barbagallo, msc.

Today, the Missionariy Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus passionately carry on the educational work begun by Mother Cabrini, being at the side of children and families.

Cabrinian schools are a place of evangelization and integral care of the person, where one can grow in harmony with oneself, with others and with God, developing one's talents to the fullest, just as Mother Cabrini desired.