The film explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini – the Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators -- in honor of the Centenary of her passing. It reintroduces audiences to the first American citizen saint and addresses her relevance today for refugees and immigrants around the world. Mother Cabrini -- despite frail health and a fear of water -- crossed the ocean many times to administer to the poor, the sick and children and established schools, hospitals, and safe havens across Europe and the Americas. Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People's Saint begins in her birthplace of Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Italy and takes viewers through her tireless commitment to serve those in need in the U.S. and around the world. Mother Cabrini spent her final days at Chicago's former Columbus Hospital in Lincoln Park. In 2012, it reopened as The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. She embraced and overcame great challenges in her mission and is the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

 

Includes enlightening interviews with author-scholar Achille Mascheroni, Sr. Joan McGlinchey, MSC, Sr. Bridget Zanin, MSC, Father Richard Fragomeni, artist Meo Carbone, architect Christopher Payne, Sr. Maria Regina Canale, MSC, youth ministers from the Archdiocese of Chicago, and new immigrants establishing strong faith communities. With a special appearance by Il Grande Coro di Roma, conducted by Fabrizio Adriano Neri and filmed live in Rome performing an original hymn composed by Enzo De Rosa exclusively for this film.

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Enzo De Rosa's original soundtrack is available on iTunes.

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The film has screened at St. Ita Catholic Church in Chicago, St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington (where Mother Cabrini received her American citizenship in 1909 and founded a school, orphanage and hospital), St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in Yucaipa, California in honor of the parish's 70th anniversary, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 -- the historic port of entry for immigrants to Canada between 1928 and 1971 -- in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It has toured Italy, with screenings held at l'Auditorium della Banca Popolare di Lodi in Lodi (the province of Mother Cabrini's birth town) sponsored by l'Associazione Missione Cabriniana Oggi Onlus and la Parrocchia di Sant'Antonio Abbate e Santa Francesca Saverio Cabrini; in Milan at the Convent of the Sisters of Charity of the Assumption; and in Rome at the Church of San Tommaso Moro sponsored by Fondazione Migrantes and We the Italians magazine. The documentary was selected for a special showing by the Lincoln Park Community Research Initiative at Chicago's DePaul University, and was presented at Chicago's National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini followed by the unveiling of a City of Chicago Tribute Marker to Mother Cabrini. It was chosen as an Official Selection at the 2018 Catholic Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, and broadcast in its entirety by the Catholic Peace Broadcasting Company, Korea's major Catholic TV Channel.

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Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People's Saint (in English and Italian, with subtitles in Spanish and French) is currently touring the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Americas with the goal of sharing Mother Cabrini's timeless humanitarian message.