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Martin Scorsese in 2024.. After Raging Bull in the early 1980s, Martin Scorsese considered quitting filmmaking, wanting to travel to Rome to shoot a series of television documentaries on the lives of different saints: "I literally thought it would be my last film," said Scorsese in 2016, referring to Raging Bull.
The docudrama will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes set … Martin Scorsese Partners With Fox Nation for New Docudrama ‘Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints’ Skip to main ...
A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely "based on true events", a term which implies a greater degree of dramatic license, and from the concepts of historical drama, a broader category which may also incorporate entirely fictionalized events intermixed with factual ones, and ...
Saint, 12th-century fresco in Staraya Ladoga. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a saint is defined as anyone who is in Heaven, whether or not recognized here on Earth. [2] By this definition, Adam and Eve, Moses, the various prophets, and archangels are all given the title of "Saint".
Greek saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (1 C, 60 P) R. Saints from Roman Greece (4 C, 19 P) S. Saints of medieval Greece (36 P) Saints of modern Greece (1 C, 17 P)
Intercessor: a saint who prays, or intercedes, on behalf of the living and the dead. [22] All saints bear this title, although they are rarely ever formally titled as such (e.g. St. Seraphim of Sarov) Martyr: literally meaning "witness" in Greek; [23] one who has died for the faith [6] (e.g. St. Sebastian) [24]
Onuphrius (Greek: Ὀνούφριος, romanized: Onouphrios; also Onoufrios) lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, and as Saint Nofer the Anchorite in Oriental Orthodoxy.
Revelation 5:8 presents the saints in Heaven as linked by prayer with their fellow Christians on earth. The communion of saints (Latin: commūniō sānctōrum, Ancient Greek: κοινωνίᾱ τῶν Ἁγῐ́ων, romanized: koinōníā tôn Hagíōn), when referred to persons, is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, but excluding the damned. [1]