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.
The film’s screenwriter, Rod Barr, made the deliberate choice to establish these facts at the beginning of the movie out of concern that audiences wouldn’t believe how horrific life was for Italian immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.
The set designer, Carlos Lagunas, used real images taken by the historical photographer Jacob Riis that documented the poverty, brutality, and anguish experienced at the time.
Read more here from Gingrich 360.
