Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2003)

In the beginning of the film it is the 1840's. Liam Neeson's character is praying with his son. The prayer is the Catholic "Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel." That prayer didn't exist until 1884, when Pope Leo XIII wrote it. Most Catholics are aware of this fact. I wonder if Scorcese and/or Jay Cocks goofed, or if they just didn't care about such an obvious blunder. You'd think they'd have been more careful since they were trying to present a historically believable, although understandably fictionalized, story.