A one hour documentary based on the book by best selling author Margaret Visser.
"Geometry of Love" leads the viewer on a journey to provocative spiritual insights into the role of women, Christian evolution and spiritual transcendence that can all be found in an ordinary church. The location of this journey is St. Agnes Fuori le Mura in Rome.
In 305 A.D., the mighty Roman Empire is shaken. It is being challenged by ordinary men and women who propound the powerful new message of the Christian faith. One of them, a 12 year old girl called Agnes, is moved to do the unthinkable. She refuses the marriage proposal from a Prefect’s son. For her outrageous crime she is publicly denounced, humiliated in the streets of Rome, physically brutalized, and then burned at the stake.
Eighteen centuries later, Margaret Visser, a modern Christian writer eager to explore the symbolism of “an ordinary church”, stumbles upon the extraordinary story of Saint Agnes. Visser believes that Agnes’s refusal to submit to a forced marriage is nothing less than a shift in the history of civilization – a new conception of women’s dignity that is still changing our world.
This documentary is about Visser’s rediscovery of her own spirituality, of the many meanings of an obscure church in Rome and of the tragic tale of the 12-year old girl for whom Saint Agnes is named.
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