Movie Review of the Recent Angel Studios movie Cabrini about the first American Citizen to be Sainted

   Went to see this movie for inspiration as to what one human could do if he or she really put her or his mind to it.  She had extensive lung damage due to the fact that she had once almost drowned and evidently, according to the movie diagnosed to live only two to four years but actually lived another 20 more, long enough to build an apostolate which built orphanages, hospitals and parochial schools across the world. My other interest is that my first-grade school in Washington state was named Saint Francis Cabrini and I wanted to learn more about the Saint it was named after.  This is the story of her humble beginnings, starting in the middle of nowhere in Italy, petitioning the pope to start a hospital or school in China (which she evidently accomplished in a round about way) and being diverted to the United States to start her journey in one of the poorest parts of New York, filled with poor Italian families and orphans.   

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