At The End of the Santa Fe Trail
Logline
When an innocent Sister’s of Charity Nun is sent to the great southwest of 1872 armed with only her faith and a warning about the dangers of cowboys, she confronts gunslingers, sin- ners and even Billy The Kid as she does the work of sharing God and caring for the less for- tunate.
Plot
A young female Italian immigrant, Maria Rosa Segale receives the ultimate calling to serve God. Her innocent and devoted life is interrupted to accept an assignment in the developing Southwest Territories. Our protagonist is naive to the dangers she would encounter but ex- cited about the missionary work with her fellow Sisters of Charity. Sister Blandina quickly finds herself in the middle of the violent and untamed territories off the dangerous Santa Fe Trail. Cowboy, outlaws, and evils characters confront her ideals and force her to stay strong in her faith against the temptations of the world. Her commitment to serve all humanity including the immigrants, native Americans and the innocent orphan children is constantly challenged. Living through daily raids by “Indians” and stagecoach robberies, she continues to fight back and stand against government corruption along the Santa Fe Trail. Sister Blandina recognized the dignity in all humans, and during her 90 years of life, she helped build churches, schools and hospitals in the American west.
Audience
Christian viewers, which alone represent a faith community of 2.48 billion worldwide, are hungry for uplifting, authentic stories that excite their imagination and ground them in bib- lical truths. This faith focused genre exploded when Mel Gibson, in 2014 produced The Last T emptation of Christ, garnering more than 200 million viewers worldwide.
The Chosen, an episodic, in its second season with over 80 million viewers, continues to touch audiences with faith content. At The End of The Santa Fe Trail combines that deep religious faith and places it in the wild west, a genre that is always in demand. A look at the recent streaming services shows no less than 10 westerns, with loyal audiences.
Cast
Holy, heroic, brave and bold: all words that describe the Sister of Charity of Cincinnati who could become Cincinnati’s first saint. Servant of God Sister Blandina Segale spent most of her life in Cincinnati but the Archdiocese of Santa Fe claims her as its own, too, and took the action that led to the opening of her cause for sainthood in 2014. Her adventures are legendary and the subject of comic books and television shows. Now, her journey along the Santa Fe Trail may be part of her path to sainthood.
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WKRC-TV devotes hour to ‘Sister Blandina Segale: A Cincinnati Saint’
The Sisters of Charity nun under consideration for sainthood taught in a Colorado Territory school in the 1870s, and encountered outlaw Billy the Kid and ‘frontier justice,’ before founding Cincinnati’s Santa Maria Institute.
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