\u00a0RELATED: Invoking Mother Cabrini, Bishops Call For \u2018Christian Charity\u2019 on Immigration<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, while she was not part of the Titanic-iceberg legend, Mother Cabrini was previously aboard a ship that just missed hitting an iceberg during a trans-Atlantic crossing.<\/p>\n
It was 1890, and she was a passenger on the Normandie. There were many icebergs in the North Atlantic at the time, and a stormy night made it difficult for the ship\u2019s crew to see them. However, the Normandie\u2019s engine broke, and the ship was stuck in port until it could be repaired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were delayed almost 11 hours,\u201d Attaway said. \u201cThat would not have been her favorite kind of event. She always wanted to get everywhere so she could keep working.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the time crews finished the repairs, it was daylight, and visibility was such that the crew was better able to spot any icebergs. That was only Mother Cabrini\u2019s second trans-Atlantic crossing. She would go on to make 24 trips in total.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s ironic, according to Attaway.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe almost drowned as a child, so she had a lifelong fear of water,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut she would get on a ship for one reason and one reason only \u2014 because God wanted her on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, but never made it to its destination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-187359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, but never made it to its destination in New York. It struck an iceberg on the night of April 14 and sank during the early morning hours of April 15. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/St.-Frances-Cabrini-group-shot-1914.jpg\")
In one of the last known photos taken of her, Mother Frances Cabrini (in black habit) welcomed guests to her school in Dobbs Ferry in 1914. She died in 1917 and was canonized in 1946. (Photo: Courtesy of St. Frances Cabrini Shrine)<\/p>\n