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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0897079001096
Format: Color, Digital Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Ignatius Press
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 210 minutes
Sales Rank: 10615
Studio: Ignatius Press
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Product Description:
Famous as the patron of hopeless situations, St. Rita of Cascia is immortalized in this wonderful, deeply moving film about this beautiful woman who lived in Italy in the 14th century. Starring Vittoria Belvedere and Martin Crewes, this powerful story combines high drama, great love, deep betrayal, senseless tragedy, profound forgiveness and strong faith as it tells the story of this brave and loyal woman who married her knight, helped him overcome his dark past and convert to faith, happily bore him two childern, and later endures immense pain as she loses everything in her life. She finds peace and new hope through generosity of a nearby convent of sisters, and with their help she develops a deep union with Christ that greatly inspires all who near her.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Heroic Saint; Lazy Production
St. Rita was truly heroic (as are all saints). This show plays out as a "good story," perhaps; I nearly stopped looking at it within an hour because of what I perceived as "acting with a big 'A'" and historical inaccuracies.
St. Rita married her husband when she was 12 years old. We are shown someone who is in her 20s, perhaps.
The language of the Catholic Church is Latin. In St. Rita's time, most of those in the secular life (if not all) neither read nor spoke Latin. ... Read More
Rating:  - NOT VERY HISTORICAL
Having read biographies of St. Rita, I was shocked to see this film. For instance, in reality, Rita did not fall madly in love and then get married. Instead, she had wanted to enter a convent, but she was forced into a marriage at the age of 12 by her parents. And the lengthy, ad nauseam, business about two powerful warring families, who eventually become united because of Rita, is just some screen writer's fantasy.
Then you have the bedroom scenes, with the muscular hunk of a husband ... Read More
Rating:  - SAINT RITA
VERY PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE OF THE LIFE OF SAINT RITA. I'VE WATCHED IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. EXCELLENT. I'M AMAZED AT HOW SHE HANDLED A VERY DIFFICULT LIFE SITUATION.
Rating: - St. Rita DVD
The life of St. Rita ... A Catholic movie. Highly recommend! Good story, well directed and produced.
Rating: - The best religious movi in decades
What a superb film. I carry advanced degrees in Catholic Theology and Religious Education and consider this film a joy. I know much about saints and this has to be one of the most relevant, personalized, and accurate depictions of Catholic spirituality and sanctity.
According to the RC Church there is only one determining factor for sainthood; heroic love. Rita of Cascia demonstrated heroic love throughout her life, one grounded in peace, love, reconciliation, mercy and forgiveness for all ... Read More
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