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Archbishop Corrigan was not the son of poor working class Irish immigrants in New York City
Synopsis
After witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children ;s order, some of whom were in their nineties. By the end of the film, many of them were reportedly crying with several of them exclaiming, "THAT'S Cabrini!". Corrigan was born in New Jersey to Irish immigrant parents who owned a retail grocery and liquor business in Newark and were well-to-do..
Dare To BePerformed by Andrea Bocelli and Virginia Bocelli
Cabrini: We can serve our weakness or we can serve our purpose. Not both.. Featured in The Glenn Beck Program: Is 'Cabrini' the BEST Christian film since 'The Passion of the Christ?' (2024).
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Although I avoid religious films that have a holy message to relay, I have become a cheerleader for Angel Studios because of the two films I have seen, the box-office wonder Sound of Freedom and now the beautiful and engaging biopic, Cabrini. They have a production richness exemplified not only in the realistic and lush cinematography (shout out to Cabrini lenser Gorka Gomez Andreu), but also in believable heroes such as the human trafficker hounds in the former and the canonized Mother Cabrini (Cristiana Dell'Anna). Both films have the same director, Alejandro Monteverde.The realism and goodness of the characters helps make both films memorable for putting us directly in the action (in Cabrini 1899 New York City) and only subtly sanctifying the heroes.
The elements of first-rate filming are in Cabrini: original music by Gene Back that captures spirituality while exalting humanity, Alisha Silverstein's spot-on period costumes, and an equally-impressive Carlos-Lagunas production design
Over all of them is a lean and effective story by Monteverde and Rod Barr aided immensely by the creative editing of Brian Scofield "entrepreneur," David Morse's archbishop is imperious and difficult, matched growl for growl by John Lithgow's intractable mayor. Senior to them is the impressive Giancarlo Giannini as Pope Leo XIII, who assigns the NYC slums to Cabrini's future as the eventual patron saint of immigrants a superlative example of the feminist Gloria Steinem could imagine: kind and ambitious, tough and savvy, in love with children who need her love. It would be next to impossible not to shed a tear watching her build an orphanage and then hospitals in the spirit of her selfless mission to help the disadvantaged poverty while encouraging us to applaud the heroism of Cabrini and her soldiers, including a Mary-Magdalene-type prostitute, Victoria ( Romana Maggiora Vergano).
Cabrini is, like the current Oppenheimer, a true, albeit "inspired by," biopic with heart and grit
The comparison to Christ's journey is never emphasized, all the better to realize the everyday heroism of our fellow humans it spiritually transports you to the worlds of authentic heroes.