The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Four: A Torrent of Obstacles Rome. 1917. Returning from the hospital, Brother Kolbe wastes no time in forming the Militia Immaculatae. The first members are eager to begin, but face a torrent of obstacles. In 1941, Fr. Kolbe, dehydrated and clinging to life, prays with the remaining inmates of his cell, singing hymns to...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Three: A Different Kind of Army 1917. 23-year-old Raymund Kolbe is a Franciscan Brother and seminarian in Rome. His studies have occupied all his time and energy over the last seven years. But the young Kolbe still feels that he isn’t doing enough. In 1941, Fr. Kolbe fights with all of his strength to bolster the s...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Two: Days of Discernment Ukraine, 1910. 16-year-old Raymund Kolbe is in his third year at Lviv’s Jr. Seminary. His faith has continued to grow strong. But as the day of his initial vows draws near, he worries he can’t keep both the vows of the priesthood - and the vows he has already sworn to Our Lady. ...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode One: A Knightly Heart Poland. 1941, the second year of the Nazi Occupation of Poland. In the most infamous concentration camp of the war, an escape has taken place. The remaining prisoners of Auschwitz are now being punished for their comrades’ freedom. One Polish priest, imprisoned for speaking out against the Naz...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Dominic - Episode Five: God’s Hound France. 1216 AD. Having received Pope Innocent’s blessing, Dominic works tirelessly to get his new religious order under way. The church in France is starting to rebuild, but with the Albigensian war still a fresh memory, Dominic wrestles with the stubbornness of sin.  🌐 Subscribe for Free...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Dominic - Episode Four: Holy War France. 1209 AD. A Christian army loyal to the pope marches into battle against the Albigenses. As war rages on, the faithful pray for a victorious end. With the deaths of so many innocents weighing on his mind and heart, Dominic resolves to plant where everything has been uprooted... 🌐 Subscribe for Free Dai...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Dominic - Episode Three: Relentless Dissent France. 1207 AD. A terrible truth has been revealed: the Albigenses have spread their vicious errors further than anyone - even the pope - had ever imagined. Desperate to stop them before Europe is lost to heresy, the Holy Father sends Dominic to gain the support of France’s noble families. Bu...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Dominic - Episode Two: A Mole in the Garden France. 1206 AD. After two years of preaching and walking the roads of France, Dominic and Diego have failed to gain the people’s trust. The Albigenses are too strong, and the weakness of the French church only helps their cause. Dominic considers a different approach, something that will make...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Dominic - Episode One: Needful Zeal France, 1204 A.D. A secret sect of renegade Christians infiltrates the Church, taking over large portions of France - spreading heresy, confusion and death among its followers! Now, the pope is fighting back, sending two young Spanish priests to be his messengers. Can they avert a holy war? This is the stor...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode Five: The Garden of Eternal Life Berlin. 1943. Franz is in prison, sentenced to death by a Nazi-led court. He prays constantly, writes to his family, and holds fast to one last earthly hope: To meet his wife face to face for the last time.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/  &...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode Four: From the Other Side 1943. The village of Saint Radegund, Austria. Franz’s worst fear has come true. He has been drafted into the Nazi army. Uncertain of when he might see his family again, he defies orders and spends one last night with his wife and daughters. Will anyone notice, and what consequences will t...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode Three: The Garden of Death 1943. Austria. Five years have passed. The German war machine ravages much of Europe, but Saint Radegund has remained peaceful, and Franz and Fani now have three young daughters. With the war escalating, almost everyone they know has sided with Hitler's Nazi Party. In a village transformed, Fr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode Two: Nazis at the Door 1937. As Adolf Hitler begins his conquest of Austria, newlyweds Franz and Fani make a honeymoon pilgrimage to Rome. Franz has read more about his Catholic faith and about the Nazi political project. When he hears the pope give a stirring anti-fascist speech, he is more resolved than ever to resist...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode One: All Aboard Austria. 1936. As Nazi soldiers descend on the tiny rural village of Saint Radegund, raising money and signing up recruits, a young, bad-boy farmer returns from years in exile, and gets their attention for all the wrong reasons. Now, can this reformed local troublemaker finally find happiness and stabili...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode Five: The Gunpowder Plot England. 1605. King James, the Protestant successor to the throne, has increased the persecution of Catholics in England. In response, a group of renegade Catholics have conspired to murder the King, the royal family and all the members of  Parliament. While Nicholas knows nothing of the conspir...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode Four: Jail and Freedom England. 1594. Roused from their beds and betrayed by the wicked Mr. Franks, Nicholas, Father Gerard and Ralph Sheldon have been arrested by the Queen's agents. Nicholas and Ralph are taken to the infamous prison of Poultry Compter. Will this be the end for Nicholas, and for his courageous mission to h...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode Three: The Secret Agents 1591. England's Jesuit priests live as fugitives. Always on the move, they seek refuge in the grand houses of wealthy English Catholics. When Queen Elizabeth's agents come searching for them, they flee for their lives to the secret tunnels, passages and hides built for them by Nicholas Owen. 🌐 Subsc...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode Two: A Hiding Place England. 1588. Five years have passed, and England is a country divided. Catholics are perceived as traitors to their queen. The celebration of Mass is outlawed. Priests are being imprisoned. Nicholas's older brother John, ordained in Belgium, has returned, been captured, and is now held captive in London...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode One: A Little Saint Joseph Oxford, 1583. Under the oppressive rule of Queen Elizabeth I, English Catholics are worried: priests are being sent to Europe for protection. And young men entering the priesthood must leave England or face death. As one Catholic family of master craftsmen prepares to say goodbye to two of their so...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Charbel - Episode Five: The Miracle Worker Lebanon, 1898. Twenty-three years after the miracle of the lamp, Father Charbel lives as a hermit at Annaya, high in the mountains above Lebanon. But with pilgrims coming to see the now famous “Miracle Monk”, will he ever find the silence and solitude he desires? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Dai...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Charbel - Episode Four: The Monk Lebanon, 1859. After six years in the monastic seminary, Youssef is now Father Charbel. He enjoys a quiet and happy life of work and prayer with his brother monks. But when events in Lebanon threaten its peace, Charbel finds the only answer is to draw closer to God. And a foolish prank turns into a glorious mi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Charbel - Episode Two: The Call Lebanon, 1851. Seven years have passed. Twenty-three year old Youssef yearns for a monk’s life of prayer and contemplation - far from the busy world. But his mother, brother and uncle have other ideas! Now Youssef must quiet his thoughts, and listen for God’s voice in his heart. Can his vocation eve...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Charbel - Episode Three: The Novice Lebanon, 1851. Youssef slips out into the night to join the monks at Mayfouk - leaving behind his family and their more worldly plans for him. But as he starts religious life as “Brother Charbel” - his family fights hard to drag him back. And just when he feels safe, an evil foe arrives, intent...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Charbel - Episode One: The Peasant Lebanon. 1844. The tiny village of Bekaa Kafra. High up in the northern mountains, a fifteen year old peasant boy longs to find God in solitude. But opposition from his family and friends, and foreign occupation of his country stand in his way. Only a miracle can help him. This is the story of Saint Charbel....

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Five: To the Top! On the second floor of the grand Frassati mansion, Pier Giorgio lies paralyzed in bed, cut down at twenty-four years of age by a mysterious affliction. Doctor Sarto arrives to care for him. As daring plans take shape to get a medicine which could cure him, Pier Giorgio gives Marco some vitally impor...