Wow. We go months without going to a movie but this month or maybe in the next two weeks we’ll go see Dune 2, Cabrini, and episodes 7 and 8 of The Chosen.
The Irish American Sisters of Charity NY who taught me had a special affection for Sister Cabrini. It was the SCNY who gave Frances Cabrini refuge and a place to call home when she first arrived. As fot the author’s statement that Italians were not considered to be white. There is a famous foto of Mulberry Street in 1910 where you are hard pressed to call anyone in it white. And in a mark of ignorance on Feb 1 this year WCBS TV NY CH 2 ran a series of fotos of blacks, individuals, groups, and scenes.in history. Some famous some not. But one of those pics was the one of Mulberry Street. Perhaps someone with greater skill than I, that’s most of you I’d guess, can locate the Pic and post it. For those are the people Frances Cabrini came to serve.
https://mothercabrinishrine.org/the-shrine
“About Mother Cabrini Shrine
Mother Cabrini loved the mountains of Colorado. The foothills west of Denver held a special attraction for her. During her journeys in 1902 to visit the Italian workers and their families in the Clear Creek, Argentine, and South Park mining districts, Frances X. Cabrini discovered a property on the east slope of Lookout Mountain owned by the town of Golden.
No reliable source of water was known to exist on the property at that time, although there were two fine barns and a springhouse built in the 1890s. In 1909–1910, she negotiated the purchase of this property as a summer camp for her charges at the Queen of Heaven Orphanage in Denver, CO.”
When I first came to study at California Institute of the Arts it was housed in the Villa Cabrini, the former Catholic girls school in the hills above Burbank. The whole place was destroyed in the earthquake a few months later. Only the chapel survived intact.
So when do we get a movie bio on Ashli Babbit?