Cabrini Movie Review & Giveaway

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Having attended parochial school as a child, I often found myself fascinated by the lives of post-modern saints. Individiuals, like you, and me, that helped to make this country, this brave, beautiful world a better place. Through simple, deliberate actions, brave souls bettered their communities, created peace, feed the impoverished, and improved communities the world over. It is in this same spirit, I was draw to view the film, from the directors and producers of Sound of Freedom, Alejandro Monteverde’s newest work, Cabrini. The powerful lifestory of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant arriving in New York City in 1889, and later becoming the Patron Saint of Immigrants of North America.

Set in the disease, crime, and impoverishment-riddled Post-Reconstructionist America, a time when Italian immigrants to America lived in poverty and were denied basic rights to affordable housing and hospital care-deplorible conditions still seen in many of America’s cities, today. Called, “dago” and “Guinea pigs,” names emcompassing the deplorible conditions faced by the average Italian American Immigrant of the late nineteenth century, it is here our story’s heroine, played by Italian actress Cristiana Dell’Anna, begins a daring mission to convince popal authority, and later the hostile American politicans and sexist religious institutions. Along with the greed-stricken residents of Guilded Age New York City to help secure housing and healthcare for society’s most vulnerable.

Despite her poor English, and even poorer health, having overcome a near-childhood drowning, one that left Cabrini with severe lung damage, she invested her strengths into creating better communities for her fellow fledgling new world homecomers. Through her genrous spirit, she inspired the ambitious gallies of New York’s elite to give in ways unlike anything the world had seen. Aiding in the creation of sixty-seven hospitals, orphanages, and schools. Leading to her canonization in 1946 by Pope Pius XII, Cabrini become the first American citizen to be canonized-four years later titled as, the “Patroness of Immigrants.“

This first-ever biopic dedicated to the life of Mother Cabrini premieres in theaters on March 8, coinciding with International Women’s Day. Making it a great time to take the amazing women in your life to see this film, this spring, too. Buy tickets today to see Cabrini in theaters starting March 8th! You can purchase tickets, here.

As the movie allows audiences to understand Cabrini’s ultimate theme-to “aim for the impossible. For, as she tells Pope Leo XIII, played by Giancarlo Giannini, “The world is too small for what I intend to do.” Showing audiences that if a mere woman, not duppose to leave the confines of her bed for the rest of her life, can make the miraculous manageable, you can, too.

With its hopeful messaging and prestine cinemography, Cabrini invites audiences to do something odd-to rejoice in our own shortcomings, and, perhaps, sign-on for making our communities better places to live-to be our own “social saint.”

In the words of Saint Cabrini, herself, to women, like you, and me:

“Let all your affections, O daughters, be concentrated in this beautiful Heart, and you will always, and truly, be happy;”

Now, friends, also be sure to enter to win a $10.00 Amazon gift card from Momentum Publishing. To enter, please let me know why you’d most want to see Cabrini in theatres starting March 8th, 2024. Please note: this giveaway closes March 3, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. CST. Giveaway winners are verified and cannot have won the same giveaway from a fellow, participating vlogger of blogger. Giveaway prizes will be provided directly to winners from Momentum Publishing. Good luck, everyone!