Consecration(2023)

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Grace (Jena Malone) is the relic the church has been searching for. She was a child thought to be by the church to be a fallen angel. Grace was able to perform miracles, which would be an affront to the church’s teachings of only One God. Kidnapped by Crusaders, she had been entombed in the convent for centuries until the tomb was broken open.

The convent figured out her adopted brother Michael was the key to recapturing her so they tortured him for her location. He did kill the priest and ultimately did kill himself for his sin of murder and to protect her.

After realizing Father Romeo (Danny Huston) and the nuns plan to just entomb her again for eternity, she fights back, impaling Father Romeo with a cross and apparently committing suicide. However, she ultimately is seen to have survived. In an extended flashback, we see that Grace has been protecting herself ever since she was released from the tomb, causing death to anyone trying to harm her. Her spirit even tried to convince her brother not to fall off the cliff, but she cannot. Michael tells Grace that she is a good person before jumping. Having a drink with a former professor, Grace realizes it was her protector spirit that healed the eyesight of a woman she consulted with, showing Grace DOES have the capacity to do good and DOES perform miracles; she is not demonic. She only caused harm to those who actively tried to hurt her including the agents of the church who did not understand her gift, thinking her to be evil.

Some time later, Mother Superior tries to confront Grace on the street and shoot her, only to be run over by a taxi. Grace narrates that her brother used to believe that she had a guardian angel though she believed in nothing. “Now,” she notes, “I’m not so sure.” The implied implication is Grace, now armed with the truth, will quietly perform miracles where she can, in defiance of an institution so afraid of change, that it would try (and fail) to kill her to keep its status quo.