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Film Review - Cabrini

Film Review - Cabrini

A lavishly mounted tribute to Italian nun Francesca Saverio Cabrini, whose charity work led to her canonisation as America’s first saint

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Mar 20, 2024
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Mother Cabrini aka Francesca Saverio Cabrini is the subject of Alejandro Monteverde’s hagiographical drama about the titular Italian nun. A pioneering charity worker of the Catholic church, Cabrini was the first American to obtain sainthood by the Vatican, and on the evidence presented in this handsomely mounted film, with good reas…

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