Derry nun honoured through film

Derry nun honoured through film

The second anniversary of the death of the young Derry nun, Sr Clare Crockett, who died in an earthquake in Ecuador, was marked this month with the release of a film about her remarkable life.

The 33-year-old Servant Sister died when the school building she was in collapsed on April 16, 2016, but her positive influence on other people compelled the Sisters to produce a film about her life.

The documentary All or Nothing: Sr Clare Crockett, which was shown in the Brunswick Moviebowl, Derry, on April 16 and 18, includes over 15 years of photographs and videos of the life of Sr Clare, including interviews with her parents, close friends from her youth, Home of the Mother founder Fr Rafael, and Servant Sisters who were very close to her.

“It was a very full house and a very big cinema. Very well done, I must say it was very well presented,” Derry’s bishop Donal McKeown told The Irish Catholic.

“It was very much a local thing, there were people there who had grown up with her. It was very much a local celebration for local people.”

Bishop McKeown added that we have to find all sorts of possible ways to ensure that the message of the Gospel is spread, and that films can be one outlet that can touch “the head, and the heart, and ultimately the hands of people”.