“Five Priests” a documentary written and directed by Chris Charles Scott III.
Synopsis: When an epidemic of Yellow Fever swept through Shreveport, Louisiana in 1873, five Catholic priests bravely ministered to the sick and dying before they succumbed to the disease themselves.
In 2023, the city of Shreveport will mark the 150th anniversary of the third-worst epidemic of Yellow Fever in United States history. The human toll was staggering: over one-quarter of the population died from the illness within a matter of weeks. The human suffering wrought in 1873 remains unparalleled to this day. Yet amid this tragedy emerged heroic virtue, exemplified in the lives of five priests who voluntarily and freely offered their life for others and persevered with this determination unto death.
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