Participants included New York City Council Member Rosie Mendez, and Sister Pietrina Raccuglia, M.S.C., provincial of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the religious congregation founded by Mother Cabrini.
Maria R. Bastone
The cover falls from the new street sign. Light refreshments followed at Cabrini Apartments at 220 E. 19th St.
A ceremony officially dedicating East 19th Street between Second and Third avenues in Manhattan as Mother Cabrini Way in honor of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants, was held Oct. 20.