The Saint of Bleecker Street (1956)

Devout Annina hears voices and experiences a stigmata on Good Friday's. She longs to take the veil, but her atheist brother refuses to consent. In their Italian- American community he is considered a rebel. Taking atheism, premarital sex, and the tension of ethnic assimilation and mixing murder, religious fervor, and accusations of incest, this 1956 Opera won a Pulitzer.