DENVER (KDVR) — On the first Monday of October, Colorado celebrates Cabrini Day in honor of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini.
In 2020, a Colorado House Bill replaced Columbus Day with the new state holiday. According to the law, Cabrini, a nun, was a “humanitarian champion of immigrants and children” who came to the U.S. from Italy and came to Colorado in 1902.
By 1905, she had opened the Queen of Heaven Orphanage for girls in north Denver. In 1910, the saint founded a summer camp for the Queen of Heaven orphans in Mount Vernon Canyon. The canyon is also where Cabrini reportedly found water on the land, now dubbed the “miracle of the mountains.”…