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4 days ago · By Francesca Pollio Fenton. CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Alejandro Monteverde, the director of last summer’s blockbuster “Sound of Freedom,” is back at it again — this time telling the inspiring story of the work Mother Cabrini undertook to protect impoverished children in New York City. Monteverde’s new film, “Cabrini ...
5 days ago · Updated March 26th, 2024 at 12:42 pm (Europe\Rome) Who was Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, the woman known simply as Mother Cabrini? Alejandro Monteverde's new film Cabrini sheds light on...
3 days ago · (L-R) Mother Cabrini sits near a photo of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Last known photo of St. Cabrini, in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1914. (photo: Courtesy photo / St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine) Executive director of the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine in New York City outlines the strong faith of the remarkable saint.
2 days ago · Cabrini Cast. "Cabrini" features Cristiana Dell'Anna as Francesca Cabrini, with John Lithgow as Mayor Gould and David Morse as Archbishop Corrigan. Giancarlo Giannini also stars, enriching the film's historical depth.
3 days ago · Audience reaction observed at pre-release screenings appears to place Cabrini on a similar track. The times seem ripe for bringing to a wide audience the story of Francesca Cabrini, later to be Mother Frances Cabrini then St. Frances Cabrini, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, on July 7, 1946. Monteverde spoke with the Register on Jan. 17 ...
1 day ago · “Begin the mission and the funds will come,” says feisty, tubercular nun Francesca Cabrini (Christiana Dell’Anna; Patrizia in Gomorrah) to Pope Leo XIII (Giancarlo Giannini) in 1889. She specialises in defying expectations, especially when men tell her she should stay where she belongs. She became the first American saint, canonised in 1946.
2 days ago · The Mother Cabrini Shrine near Golden, Colorado, holds a miraculous spring, while the soaring steeple of Leadville’s Annunciation Catholic Church — the country’s highest steeple at 11,000 feet above sea level — could be a landing strip for angels.
