The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Four: A Turning Point One day after Pier Giorgio's arrest. Daylight breaks in the jail cell where we left Pier Giorgio, Father Matteo, and the three fascist blackshirts. But something has happened - an event that has changed the hearts of everyone. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ &...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Three: It’s Nothing October 1922: Mussolini and his fascist supporters march on the Italian capitol of Rome, finally taking control of the government. Celebrations and protests are mounted all over Italy. Against his father's advice, Pier Giorgio attends an anti-fascist demonstration in Turin. 🌐 Subscribe for...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Two: There You Feel Free High above Turin, Pier Giorgio and Marco lead a group of young friends on a mountain trek. As they near the top, some in their party have fallen far behind. When Pier Giorgio descends to help those in need, he shares a surprising little secret that few people know. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode One: And Now We Run 1922. A new technology - radio - fills the airwaves with jazz and news from across the world. In Italy, the fascist leader Benito Mussolini promises a new era of greatness. But in the wealthy northern city of Turin, at the foot of the Piedmont mountains, a handsome young man blessed with everythin...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Five:  A Chorus of Angels Rome. 230 A.D. Having discovered Cecilia and Valerian's plans to go outside the city walls to bury the Christian dead, Fabia resolves to turn them in to the Roman officials, and to see that they are executed.   🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/  &nbsp...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Four: Death’s Dirge Rome. 229 A.D. After his miraculous conversion, Cecilia’s husband Valerian is committed to the Christian faith, and more than ever to his new wife. Determined to live by God’s laws, no matter the cost, the holy young couple find themselves outside the city walls breaking the unjust laws...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Three: Ritual Rhythms Rome. 229 A.D. Cecilia is now married to the pagan Valerian, who has agreed to let her remain faithful in secret. But now, he receives an even bigger surprise from his new wife! Confused and dejected, the young man demands proof of his new wife’s strange, foreign faith. And she lovingly sends him...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Two: A Wedding Hymn Rome. 229 A.D. Forced to marry to preserve her life, Cecilia is trapped. Will marriage to Valerian end her dream of a life consecrated to Christ? Despite her parents' objections, Cecilia vows to reveal her Christian faith to her pagan future spouse. What happens next, surprises everyone!  🌐 Subscrib...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode One: Sacred Chants The year 229 A.D. In pagan Rome, a new religion threatens the old order. Followers of Jesus Christ must hide their faith or lose their lives. But for one young noblewoman, hiding the truth and ignoring what’s right are out of the question. This is the story of Saint Cecilia. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Dai...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Five: In The Thick of It Cascia, Italy. 1409 A.D. For more than ten years, a bitter feud has burned beneath the surface. Now Rita’s sons are pulled into its fire, consumed by the thirst for revenge. On the edge of ruin, Rita clings to the only weapons she has left: her faith, and her fortitude. As the past rises to sw...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Four: Ambushed Italy. 1409 A.D. Unknown to Rita, her husband Paolo has been ambushed, and the cry for vengeance echoes through the streets of Cascia. With Bernardo ready to strike and danger closing in, Rita is thrust into a storm that could tear her family - and all of Cascia - apart. As her world unravels, can her faith s...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Three: Echoes of Change Italy, 1409 A.D. Sixteen years have passed, and Rita is now mother to two teenage sons, Dominic and Giovanni. The town of Cascia has grown more violent with the dangerous feud, and Rita's family has retreated quietly into the background to avoid the bloodshed. But despite their best efforts, trouble...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Two: Mother, What To Do? Cascia, Italy. 1394 A.D. Rita and Paolo have been married for one year. With her parents nearing the end of their days, Rita will soon be left completely alone with her husband’s brutal family. She's sinking fast, but an unexpected hand is reaching out to help... 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Ep...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode One: Denial, Denial Italy, 1393. The Black Plague devours cities, and violent crime families rule what’s left. In the shadowed hills of Cascia, a young girl dreams of peace in a world built on blood. When tragedy knocks at her family's door, she must choose: remain a bystander—or become a light in the darkness....

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Five: The Martyr's Gridiron Rome, 258 A.D. Lawrence has entered into a dangerous pact with Rome’s ruthless prefect: deliver the Church’s treasure in three days, or suffer death. With five empty wagons to fill, Lawrence and the Hippolytus race against time through the maze of the catacombs. Together, they risk ev...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Four: A Bargain with Rome Rome. 258 A.D. Imprisoned in a dark Roman dungeon, Lawrence, Pope Sixtus, and the seven deacons of Rome grapple with their fate. As chains clink and martyrdom looms, Lawrence's courage and faith give hope to his friends. But before paying the ultimate price, he’s determined to carry out one f...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Three: Peril in Rome Rome. 258 A.D. Lawrence has unleashed a daring plan. He and Philip rush back to Philip's family home, just steps ahead of the Roman authorities. They'll need to collect all of the family wealth and get it safely to the catacombs, before Corvus and his soldiers find it. Will Lawrence's plan work? And can...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Two: Treasures of the Church Rome. 258 A.D. The Christian Church in Rome reels after soldiers raid the catacombs. As the faithful scatter in terror, Lawrence must navigate the treacherous Roman streets to rebuild his shattered community and fulfill his vocation. Can he outwit the brutal regime and restore hope to the faithf...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode One: Faith in the Catacombs Rome. 258 A.D. A young Christian foreigner enters the Eternal City for the first time with his wise old mentor. There they discover a people living in fear under authoritarian rule. What’s worse: the authorities want to kill all Christians. To survive, they’ll have to rely on their wi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Five: To Those At His Right North Korea. April, 1951. Indoctrination is imminent. The Communist Chinese rule the Pyoktong prison camp, and now seek to control not only the prisoners' actions, but their thoughts, as well. This may be the breaking point for Father Emil and his companions. But is the ruthlessness of a Communist p...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Four: A Cross in the Rubble Korea. November, 1950. After their surrender at the Battle of Unsan, Father Emil and his companions are prisoners of the Chinese. Forced to march northwards through the freezing Korean mountains, many American soldiers have died from exposure. And those who remain begin to wonder if death might be b...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Three: On The Way to Calvary Korea. November, 1950. Communist Chinese forces have entered the war, invading South Korea to fight against the Americans. Pinned down by enemy fire, outnumbered and outflanked, Father K and his companions fight a series of battles in the province of Unsan, struggling to save lives, and scrambling...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Two: Faith and Grit The Sea of Japan. July, 1950. After five short years of peace, America is at war again, in Korea, where the Communist North has invaded the democratic South. Responding to the South Koreans urgent request for help, US President Harry Truman sends American troops to aid them in battle. And Father Emil Kapaun...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode One: The Soldier Priest South East Asia. August, 1945. The Second World War has been raging for nearly six years, claiming the lives of more than four hundred thousand American soldiers. A multitude of chaplains has been sent to minister to these men in their dying moments. One of them is a 29-year-old Catholic priest, a Kansa...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Five: The Pope’s Protector Avignon. 1375. When her attempts to negotiate peace between the Anti-Papal League and Pope Gregory fall apart, Catherine dedicates herself completely to persuading the Pope to return to Rome. This is the only way to restore peace in Italy, and unity to the Church. But the young pope&rsqu...