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Susan Sarandon plays a the role of a nun who is assigned to minister to Poncelet but feels ill-equipped and afraid in the face of this challenge.
Michele Somerville: Should Susan Sarandon Apologize For Calling The Pope A "Nazi?" Michele Somerville 2011
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One of my favorite "Catholic" films is Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, based on the true story of Louisiana death row inmate Matthew Poncelet and the Catholic Louisiana nun, Sister Helen Prejean, who ministered to Poncelet.
Michele Somerville: Should Susan Sarandon Apologize For Calling The Pope A "Nazi?" Michele Somerville 2011
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Going on nerve and Holy Spirit, she peels away the prisoner's layers of anguish, animal fear and depravity in an effort to--in more ways than one--save Poncelet; the process she unearths the live man made in God's image walking with something that looks like dignity to his death.
Michele Somerville: Should Susan Sarandon Apologize For Calling The Pope A "Nazi?" Michele Somerville 2011
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Matthew Poncelet (Scan Penn) is a tattooed convict facing execution for the murder of two teenage lovers.
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Hoping to escape his death sentence, Poncelet writes Sister Helen for help -- to find him a lawyer for his appeal, and then to become his spiritual adviser.
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And in one great scene you get it: when Poncelet, let out of his cell, pays his final visit with his family.
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The prisoner, Matthew Poncelet, found redemption, even though he was about to be executed for crimes he had committed.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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The prisoner, Matthew Poncelet, found redemption, even though he was about to be executed for crimes he had committed.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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Note 21: Albert Poncelet, "Index miraculorum Beatae Virginis Mariae quae saeculis vi-xv latina conscripta sunt," Analecta Bollandiana 21 (1902): 241 — 360, lists more than 1,750 references to the different versions of Marian miracles. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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He also received the Huygens Medal in 1870, the Poncelet Prize in 1883, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg in 1882.
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