The Italian surname Cabrini originates from Latin Cabrius, term derived from the Celtic word Cabrach. It dates back to the year 1300 and is very common in the region of Lombardia.
There are records of this surname in the year 1347, when a Roman peasant named Nicola di Rienzo Cabrini He stood out and became a notary.
In the second half of the 15th century, it operated in Bologna an artisanal workshop of master glassmakers Cabrini. As early as 1510, Francesco Cabrini was born in the city of Alfianello, in the province of Brescia, region of Lombardy, from a noble family, and became a priest and spiritual director of the Fathers of Peace.
Popularity
The surname Cabrini is typical of the area that includes the Milanese, such as Bergamo, Brescia, Cremasco and Lodi, and the provinces of Mantua, Reggio, Parma and Piacenza.
According to the Italian website Cognomix, there are approximately 815 Cabrini families in Italy, predominantly in the regions of Lombardy, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy and Veneto.
Geographical distribution of the surname in Italy:
The Cabrini surname is the 577th most popular in the Lombardy region, being the 43rd most common in the province of Lodi and the first among the surnames registered in the city of Lodi. Ponte Nossa, in the province of Bergamo.
According to the site Forebears, after Italy, the countries where the Cabrini surname is most common are Brazil, Argentina, United States and France.
Cabrini in Brazil
On January 23, 2000, the newspaper Folha de São Paulo published a report, signed by journalist Otávio Cabral, in honor of the anniversary of the city of São Paulo, which is celebrated every day January 25,.
He says that São Paulo began the 20th century with 240 thousand inhabitants and between 1900 and 1920 the population doubled, largely due to the Italian immigration. In the text, the journalist says that doctor Giuseppe Cabrini heard many stories from that period.
“Your grandfather arrived in São Paulo in 1901, coming from Verona. He spent two months at the famous Hospedaria do Imigrante, in Brás. He worked at port of Santos for two years and returned to São Paulo in 1903 to work in a coffee bags. As the city grew, a store opened in Brás. Commerce and coffee made money and changed the face of the city.”
The article reveals that at the time the nonno Cabrini arrived in São Paulo, Italian was the most spoken language in the city. There were two Italians for every Brazilian.
Biographies
The main Brazilian personality with the surname Cabrini, without a doubt, is the journalist Roberto Cabrini, 61 years old, who worked for many years at TV Globo, then worked as a Bandeirantes Network, SBT and today it is on RecordTV.
He began his career as a sports reporter, became known for major international coverage and today stands out for exclusive interviews and bold, which generate great repercussion.
In the history of humanity, the most famous personality was the nun Francisca Xavier Cabrini, who was born in 1850 in the city of Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in Lombardy, and became canonized saint in 1946 by Pius XII.
She was a teacher and Mother Superior at the Casa da Providência orphanage in Codogno, where she was also a teacher and later went to the United States and became an American citizen in 1909.
The saint, patron saint of emigrants, died in Chicago in 1917 and his remains are in Mother Cabrini School, in New York.
Cabrini world champion
In the world of football, the most famous representative of the family is Antonio Cabrini, 64 years old, starting defender of the Italy champion team World Cup in Spain in 1982.
In that team, he played alongside the striker Paolo Rossi, mentioned in the first chapter of the series Italian surname and was one of the players of Blue Team in the “Tragedy of Sarriá”.
This is how the match between Italy and Brazil became known, in Sarriá Stadium, which ended with an Italian victory of 3 to 2. The game gained this fame because Zico's Brazil, Socrates, Júnior, Falcão and company were the favorites to win the world cup. The three goals were scored by Paolo Rossi.
Defender Antonio Cabrini played for Juventus Turin between 1976 and 1989 and retired at Bologna in 1991. He also played in the 1978 and 1986 World Cups. After retiring, he was a coach and is now football commentator on television.
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