This beautiful film is a love-letter to the Vendean people, and was produced to honor the memory of these brave men and women who willingly sacrificed their lives, "for God and King". Louis de Montfort, and wearing their rosaries and emblems of the Sacred Heart, their sacrifices resulted in countless martyrdoms, and ultimately won the restoration of religious freedom for all of France. Steeped in the spiritual influence of St. This is the unknown, heroic story of the valiant, six year struggle of the people of that small section of western France to restore their Holy Religion and their King. In 1793, after enduring three and a half years of persecution of the Church by the architects of the French Revolution, a small band of faithful peasants and nobles from the Vendee region of France began a Catholic "counter-revolution". Featuring an exuberant and gifted cast of over 250 young Catholics, it is a powerful story of sacrifice and martyrdom, but told here with a careful sense of reserve, and is an outstanding movie for the whole family. Bernadette of Lourdes, tells the moving story of France's little known religious civil war in the years following the French Revolution. This inspiring new film from Navis Pictures, producers of St.
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