Daughter and I saw it a few days ago. We are not Catholics and had never heard of Cabrini. Awed by the amount of good she did while ill much of the time. Good for Italians and all immigrants. I have to wonder if anyone else would have wanted to start a Charity Hospital in the 1800’s or even now.
At any rate we learned a great deal of NYC and early American history. And we both have great respect for America’s first Nun proclaimed “Saint Cabrini”.
I really don’t want to be obnoxious or put anybody down, but I have to say it is so very upsetting when I read a suggestion that only an immigrant (”good for all immigrants....I wonder if anyone else..”) would have started a charity hospital. Woeful ignorance which is excusable but not the thought pattern behind it.
The second oldest charity hospital in the US was founded in New Orleans May 10, 1736. The oldest dates from a few months earlier in NYC. Bellevue traces its origins to the city’s first permanent almshouse, a two-story brick building completed in March 1736. Side note, almshouses date from the 10th c in Britain.
I am begging you not to make knee jerk poisoned assumptions about US history. The liberal propaganda runs deep. Please, please attempt to extirpate it from your and your daughter’s minds.