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While en route to Italy, Snow called T. B. H. Stenhouse and Jabez Woodard to serve in the new mission. They arrived in Genoa on 25 June 1850, and Snow offered a prayer dedicating Italy to the preaching of the gospel and organized the Italian Mission on 19 September on a mountain peak near the city of Torre Pellice. On 27 October, Snow baptized ...
How Rare a Possession is a 64-minute film produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It depicts the conversion stories of Parley P. Pratt, a church leader in the 19th century, and Vincenzo di Francesca, an Italian pastor in the 20th century, who both join the church after studying the Book of Mormon.
A Chosen People: 1961 25 min. Based on a true story of an Indian chief's dream wherein he was told to search for a people who possessed a book containing a history of his ancestors. Recaps the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and emphasizes the ties between the American Indians and the Book of Mormon. The Worth Of Souls: 1961 27 min.
The Best Two Years (2003) – An LDS missionary's experience in the Netherlands, based on the play The Best Two Years of My Life. Saints and Soldiers (2004) – A World War II movie that has muted LDS overtones and significant mainstream appeal. Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012) – sequel; Saints and Soldiers: The Void (2014) – sequel
In 1849, Toronto was ordained a seventy in the LDS Church. In 1850, he traveled with Lorenzo Snow and Thomas B. H. Stenhouse to England and then on to continental Europe and became the first LDS Church missionaries in Italy. [3] Toronto and his associates met with little success due in part to opposition from the Italian media and government.
1850 Erastus Snow, Peter O. Hansen, John E. Forsgren, and George P. Dykes First preached in Copenhagen Italy: 1850 Lorenzo Snow, Joseph Toronto, and Thomas Stenhouse: First preached in Genoa Sweden: 1850 John E. Forsgren Switzerland: 1850 Thomas Stenhouse and Lorenzo Snow: First preached in Geneva Norway: 1851 Hans F. Petersen
Vincenzo Di Francesca (23 September 1888 – 18 November 1966) was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1951 until his death. However, he is most known for his long struggle to become a member of the LDS Church that is documented in the short film How Rare a Possession .
Missionary work for LDS Church began in Switzerland on November 24, 1850, when the Swiss Mission was created. [4] The Swiss Mission later became the Swiss and Italian Mission and the Swiss, Italian, and German Mission. [4] Many early converts were baptized, but then emigrated to the United States until the 1950s.