Telling the Courageous Story of Frances Cabrini

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Frances Cabrini dedicated her life to bettering the world for countless immigrants and underprivileged Americans. Now, the world will get an intimate look into her story. Coming to theatres this week, the new biographical drama 'Cabrini' follows the inspiring story of 'the patron saint of immigrants', and how she was able to build the largest international network of hospitals and orphanages worldwide. Martha sits down with the film's Executive Producer, J. Eustace Wolfington, and screenwriter, Rod Barr, as they share how they came together to create this cinematic story, why they were so inspired by Cabrini's life, and what they hope audiences glean from the film. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.8	Welcome to the Untold Story Podcast, everybody.
0:57.7	I'm Martha McCallum, and I am very pleased today to be joined by the executive producer, Jay Eustace Wolfington, and screenwriter Rod Barr, who are behind the really stunning, beautiful new film about Cabrini. And I want to just jump right in and bring you in without too much ado. The movie
1:05.3	will be available on March the 8th, correct, which is International Women's Day. And you both have a lot of experience
1:12.5	in producing films. Eustace, you did a film called Bella, a few years back. And Rod, you were
1:19.7	the co-screenwriter of The Sound of Freedom, which is obviously one of the biggest independent
1:24.6	film hits in quite some time. So you gentlemen are very pros at what you do.
1:30.3	And I want to ask you first of all to, we're all going to listen to the trailer to kind of set this up
1:36.1	because there are people who know who Francesca Cabrini was and there are people who have no idea.
1:41.7	So let's start with the trailer.
1:43.2	Listen.
1:47.8	Yeah. And there are people who have no idea. So let's start with the trailer. Listen. I was told that you were rejected by three different orders, each time for weakness of Constitution.
1:57.1	Your holiness.
1:58.9	We can serve our weakness or we can serve our purpose.
2:02.6	Not both.
2:07.3	My sisters, if we are to build an empire of hope,
2:12.6	it seems we must first conquer New York.
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