Cabrini | The First 19 Minutes | Angel Studios

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Mar 14, 2024

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When Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini steps foot in America in 1889, she is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children living in New York's slums. Armed with a fearless spirit and a compassionate heart, Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. Despite broken English and poor health, Cabrini leverages her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

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Cabrini Film Calls Audiences to Dedicated Service and Unwavering Faith
March 15, 2024

Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich

On International Women’s Day, March 8, Angel Studios’ latest film, Cabrini, was released in theaters across America. The movie tells the incredible true story of the first American saint, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, and her mission to help vulnerable, impoverished, and destitute immigrants in the United States.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, millions of Italian immigrants came to America, most through Ellis Island, in search of their American dream. But many who journeyed in search of opportunity were met with poverty, desperation, and difficulty. Italian immigrants were ostracized from society, perceived to be of inferior intelligence, and struggled to speak English.

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In 1889, Mother Cabrini and the sisters were sent by Pope Leo XIII to New York City’s dangerous Five Points district, where Italians lived in brutal conditions. Parents worked for long hours and little pay, children starved, and poor living conditions resulted in disease and death.  As one immigrant from New York at the time wrote, “Here we live like animals. We live and die without priests, without teachers, without doctors.”

Despite a life-long fear of water, frail health, and initial skepticism from within the Vatican hierarchy, Mother Cabrini and the Missionary Sisters crossed the Atlantic, uncertain of what the future of their mission and their new lives as Italian immigrants might hold.

In America, the determined and resourceful 5-foot-tall Mother Cabrini overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to assist and aid Italian immigrants and orphans in New York. Amid chaos, Mother Cabrini’s faith remained steadfast. As she once said, “If you carry the Cross willingly, the Cross will carry you.”

With her sisters, Mother Cabrini went door to door looking for children to help. They started Catechism classes, opened an orphanage in West Park, and established a hospital.

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“Cabrini” celebrates the historic impact of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini and invites audiences to follow her example of dedicated service, dauntless determination, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ.