Super Saints Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Some prayers don’t feel heroic. They feel repetitive, lonely, and a little embarrassing, like you’re asking for the same miracle on a loop. That’s why we keep coming back to Saint Monica, the patron saint of mothers and anyone pleading for a loved one who has drifted from the faith. We walk through Monica’s real story: a devout Christian woman in fourth-century North Africa, a mar...

Send us Fan Mail Vienna is surrounded, supplies are failing, and a continent feels like it’s holding its breath. Instead of starting with maps and maneuvers, we start with a kneeling king and a scarred icon: Our Lady of Częstochowa, the Black Madonna, honored for centuries at Poland’s Jasna Góra monastery. This story of the Battle of Vienna in 1683 is where Catholic history, Marian devotion, and t...

Send us Fan Mail A king with everything, and still he kneels. Saint Louis IX of France doesn’t just belong to history books; he’s a living challenge to the way we think about success, leadership, and even family life. We walk through how a Catholic monarch became a saint by making one decision again and again: Christ comes first, especially in the Holy Eucharist.  We talk about Louis’s Catholic fo...

Send us Fan Mail A saint who barely speaks in the Gospels still has a lot to say to our loud, distracted world. We step into the tradition of Catholic pilgrimage and follow Saint Bartholomew the Apostle as a companion for anyone who wants a faith that feels honest, grounded, and real. There is something life-changing about walking where the saints walked, not because the stones are magical, but be...

Send us Fan Mail Holiness can feel like something reserved for people with perfect schedules and quiet monasteries, but Saint Rose of Lima blows that myth apart. We follow her life in 17th century Lima, Peru, where she lives as Isabel Flores de Oliva and becomes a radiant witness of Catholic faith, prayer, and charity. Her story is intense and beautiful, but the real surprise is how grounded it is...

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Send us Fan Mail A saint formed in the pressure of war, plague, and spiritual drift has a lot to say to a culture that feels exhausted and scattered. We walk through the life of St. John Eudes, a 17th-century Catholic priest who refuses to let faith stay theoretical. His answer to darkness is simple and demanding: return to Jesus in the sacraments, let mercy reshape your choices, and build a home...

Send us Fan Mail A cloistered convent in the hills of Italy doesn’t sound like the setting for a story that can still shake you awake, but Saint Claire of Montefalco does exactly that. We follow her life from a deeply Catholic upbringing in 13th century Montefalco to her leadership as abbess and spiritual mother, where she forms a community around the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, and a steady devo...

Send us Fan Mail A thousand years ago, Hungary stood between old gods and a new Gospel, and one ruler’s decision changed the spiritual map of Europe. We’re telling the story of Saint Stephen of Hungary, a medieval Catholic king whose life moves from pagan roots to a Christmas Day coronation in the year 1000, crowned in union with the Church and driven by a mission bigger than politics. We walk thr...

Send us Fan Mail Death feels final until the Church dares to say something bolder: heaven is not an idea, it’s a destination. The Assumption of Mary holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken body and soul into heavenly glory at the end of her earthly life, and we treat that truth not as trivia but as a promise meant to steady real families with real burdens. If you’ve ever wondered whether holi...

Send us Fan Mail A boy kneels in a parish church, and Mary changes the trajectory of his life with one question. Two crowns are held out, one for purity and one for martyrdom and twelve-year-old Raymond answers with a courage that doesn’t make sense unless grace is real: “I choose both.” That boy becomes St. Maximilian Kolbe, and his story is far more than a heroic moment at Auschwitz. It’s a road...

Send us Fan Mail Two men help lead the early Church through one of Rome’s most dangerous eras, and they cannot stand each other. Pope Pontian carries the burden of shepherding persecuted Christians, while Hippolytus, a fierce and gifted theologian, believes the Church has gone soft and lets his zeal harden into a schism. The result is public scandal, confused believers, and a fracture that seems t...

Send us Fan Mail Grief can hollow a life out or it can open it up. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal shows a third way: bring the loss to Christ, stay close to the Eucharist, and let God reshape what you thought your future would be. We walk through her journey from noble France to the daily grind of marriage and motherhood, where faith is not a slogan but a lived routine of Mass, prayer, the Rosary,...

Send us Fan Mail An invading army at the gates of a poor convent is not a setting most of us will ever face, yet the fear underneath it is familiar. We share the gripping Catholic story of Saint Clare of Assisi and the miracle of the monstrance at San Damiano, where a frail, cloistered abbess meets violence with the one “weapon” she believes the world cannot defeat: Jesus in the Eucharist. We walk...

Send us Fan Mail Rome wants the Church’s gold, and a deacon answers with a line that still startles: “These are the treasures of the Church.” We walk through the legacy of St. Lawrence, one of the most beloved Catholic saints, and why his witness is more than a martyr story. It is a direct challenge to our instincts about safety, success, and what we protect most.  We place Lawrence inside the rea...

Send us Fan Mail Open by Steve Bailey Support the show Journeys of Faith brings you Super Saints Podcasts Visit our blog for full text of our podcasts https://journeysoffaith.com/blogs/eucharist-mary-saints Download Journeys of Faith App for Iphone or Android FREE  https://journeysoffaith.com/pages/download-our-app Please consider subscribing to this podcast or making a donation to Journeys of Fai...

Send us Fan Mail He’s captured in the catacombs while celebrating Mass and he doesn’t run. Pope Sixtus II lived at a moment when being Catholic could cost you everything, and his story forces a question we usually avoid: what do we believe the Eucharist is really worth? We walk through the world of the early Church in third-century Rome, where Christians gather in hidden rooms and whisper the pray...

Send us Fan Mail An 11-year-old girl’s last words still confront the way we cling to anger. We sit with the life of St. Maria Goretti and the unsettling beauty of her mercy: she forgives the man who attacks her, and she even prays for his salvation. That single choice forces a real question for Catholic families, parish life, and anyone carrying old wounds: what does it actually mean to forgive yo...

Send us Fan Mail Open by Steve Bailey Support the show Journeys of Faith brings you Super Saints Podcasts Visit our blog for full text of our podcasts https://journeysoffaith.com/blogs/eucharist-mary-saints Download Journeys of Faith App for Iphone or Android FREE  https://journeysoffaith.com/pages/download-our-app Please consider subscribing to this podcast or making a donation to Journeys of Fai...

Send us Fan Mail Distraction is easy. Reverence takes effort. Saint Peter Julian Eymard (also spelled Aymard) proves that the effort is worth it because the reward is not a concept, it’s a Person. We talk through why the Church remembers him as the Apostle of the Eucharist and how his single-minded love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament can steady a modern Catholic life that feels noisy, hurried,...

Send us Fan Mail Prayer can feel like one more thing you should be good at, and that pressure quietly pushes a lot of us into silence. We want peace, meaning, and a deeper connection to God, but the modern pace trains our minds to stay scattered. So we turn to Saint Alphonsus Liguori, one of the Church’s great teachers of prayer, because he refuses to let prayer become a privilege for the perfect...

Send us Fan Mail Golden words can do more than sound beautiful. They can change how you live. We’re diving into the life and sermons of St. Peter Chrysologus, the fifth-century Bishop of Ravenna whose preaching earned him the title “Doctor of Homilies” and the nickname “Golden Worded” for a reason: he makes Catholic truth feel close, clear, and doable. We trace who he is, the turbulent world he sh...

Send us Fan Mail A single line from Scripture can stop you in your tracks: “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.” That love isn’t sentimental or distant. It’s the kind of divine friendship that sits at a real table, listens to real worries, and even weeps at a real graveside. We walk into Bethany to see what happens when Christ is welcomed not as a stranger, but as the beloved guest. We...

Send us Fan Mail The people who change salvation history are not always the ones with microphones. Saints Anne and Joachim live mostly in silence, at least on the pages of the Bible, yet the Church holds them close as the parents of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and the grandparents of Jesus. Their hidden fidelity raises a question that hits home: what if God is preparing something far bigger than we...

Send us Fan Mail Open by Steve Bailey Support the show Journeys of Faith brings you Super Saints Podcasts Visit our blog for full text of our podcasts https://journeysoffaith.com/blogs/eucharist-mary-saints Download Journeys of Faith App for Iphone or Android FREE  https://journeysoffaith.com/pages/download-our-app Please consider subscribing to this podcast or making a donation to Journeys of Fai...