Comments on: Mother Cabrini’s Chicago connection https://franoi.com/profiles/st-frances-cabrini/ Embrace Your Inner Italian Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Joe Orlandino https://franoi.com/profiles/st-frances-cabrini/#comment-734 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:22:51 +0000 https://franoi.com/?p=16785#comment-734 Check out the sensitive and topical 50-minute documentary, titled “Frances Xavier Cabrini: The People’s Saint”.

Written and Directed by two-time Vatican Film Festival winner, Lucia Mauro, the documentary explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini.

It 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.

The film 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.

The film is available to rent on Vimeo in five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Polish and French.

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