When watching “American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story”, one is struck by just how many things had to go both wrong – and right – for Blessed Stanley Rother to become the first American-born priest to be recognised as a martyr and the second person to be beatified on US soil.
“American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story”, a feature-length documentary narrated by Martin Sheen, tells the story of Blessed Stanley Rother, a priest from rural Oklahoma whose life would come to an end at the hands of a Guatemalan death squad.
