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The Island of Saints (2022)
Drama, History, Music

The Island of Saints (2022)

Drama, History, Music

The Island of Saints is a feature length music film by Director Eric Fraad inspired by the medieval/jazz fusion ensemble Anakronos' highly-acclaimed album, The Red Book of Ossory and its backstory. The Island of Saints oscillates between ...See moreThe Island of Saints is a feature length music film by Director Eric Fraad inspired by the medieval/jazz fusion ensemble Anakronos' highly-acclaimed album, The Red Book of Ossory and its backstory. The Island of Saints oscillates between three types of scenes; music performance scenes of Anakronos performing music from The Red Book of Ossory, scenes dramatising the infamous witch hunt and trial of Dame Alice Kyteler in 1324 and the burning of her servant Petronilla de Meath and hallucinatory music videos that engage with philosophical themes in the songs from The Red Book of Ossory. Backstory to The Island of Saints: Fourteenth century Ireland was a time of invasions, war, lawlessness, famine, and plague. In 1317 Richard de Ledrede - an English Franciscan of the Order of Friars Minor - arrived in Kilkenny, appointed by Pope John XXII in Avignon as the new Bishop of Ossory and immediately set about challenging the secular authorities and making a name for himself as a zealous moraliser and "scourge of heresy". In 1324 Ledrede declared that his diocese was a hotbed of devil worshippers. The central figure in this affair was Dame Alice Kyteler, a wealthy Kilkenny woman. Ledrede accused Kyteler together with members of her family and friends, of a variety of supernatural crimes. The bishop claimed that she was the leader of a group of heretics and witches who sacrificed to the Devil and performed revolting magical rites. Alice herself was said to have a familiar - a demon with whom she regularly had sexual intercourse. She was also accused of poisoning and murdering her four husbands. With the help of influential relatives Alice escaped to England and vanished from history. Her servant, Petronilla de Meath, was tried, tortured and burned at the stake. The Kyteler trial was the first witchcraft trial in European history to treat the accused as members of an organised sect of heretics, and the first to accuse a woman of having acquired the power of sorcery through sexual intercourse with a demon. It is also the first occasion in history that a woman was burnt for heresy charges deriving from witchcraft and occult practices. Written by Writer See less

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Catríona O'Leary Dame Alice Kyteler Dame Alice Kyteler See fewer	Partita (2025)
Raymond Keane Richard de Ledrede / Bishop of Ossory Richard de Ledrede / Bishop of Ossory See fewer	Bloom (I) (2003)
Megan O'Malley Petronilla de Meath / The Virgin Mary Petronilla de Meath / The Virgin Mary See fewer	Dub Daze (2019)
Ethan Dillon William Outlaw William Outlaw See fewer	The Cured (2017)
Vitor Bassi Artisson Artisson See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Greg Felton Nord Synthesizer / Percussion Nord Synthesizer / Percussion See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Mel Mercier Percussion Percussion See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Gavan O'Connor-Duffy Dominican Friar / Assistant to Artisson Dominican Friar / Assistant to Artisson See fewer	Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Deirdre O'Leary Clarinets / Percussion Clarinets / Percussion See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Pinco Pallino Jailer and Executioner Jailer and Executioner See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Nick Roth Soprano Saxophone / Recorders / Percussion Soprano Saxophone / Recorders / Percussion See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Michael Cooney Dominican Friar / Assistant to Artisson Dominican Friar / Assistant to Artisson See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)

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