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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Four: Christ’s Scourge Italy, 1375. Bloody war continues between the Anti-Papal league and the French Papal legates. Rather than seek peace, Pope Gregory escalates the conflict by excommunicating the entire city of Florence. Catherine is on her way to Avignon, accompanied by Lapa and Raimondo, to persuade Gregory...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Three: God’s Servant France, 1375. Through Cardinal Noellet, Pope Gregory has allied himself with Bernabo Visconti, the tyrant of Milan. And if an alliance between the pope and a warlord weren’t  scandal enough, Cardinal Noellet has made matters worse by demanding money from the people of Florence. As c...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Two: The Pope’s Pawn Siena, Italy. 1375 A.D. Thirteen years have passed since Christ sent Catherine out into the world from her pseudo-monastic life. Now, Catherine's fame as a mystic and miracle worker has spread across Europe. Her spiritual children call her "Mamma", and hang on her every word. With her father d...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode One: The Dyer’s Daughter Siena, Italy. 1362. A powerful tyrant has invaded the Papal States, forcing the Pope into exile in France. Meanwhile, a fifteen-year-old girl in Siena longs for life as a Third Order Dominican. While her parents arrange a marriage for her to protect their family interests, this special gir...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Five: God’s Servant Lima, Peru. The Dominican Monastery is deeply in debt, and the moneylenders have sent their workers to seize the friars’ belongings to cover what they owe. Upon learning of this, Fray Martin makes a shocking and selfless offer to save the monastery from its creditors.  🌐 Subscribe for...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Four: The Famous Friar Lima, Peru. 1603. Despite the law prohibiting non-whites from entering religious orders, Martin has finally become a lay brother of the Dominican Order. But as he stands on the threshold of professing his solemn vows, a question hangs in the air: is the city of Lima, divided by racial prejudice and...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Three: Compassion Above Everything Lima, Peru. 1603. Eight years have passed since Martin was accepted as a servant in the Dominican monastery of Lima. While he finds joy in serving both the friars and the poor, whispers of discontent echo through the cloisters. Though many of the friars mistreat Martin, the wise and comp...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Two: Called to Serve Lima, Peru. 1594. Five years have passed and Martin has returned to Lima, the capital of Peru. Before his mother died, she got him a job as an apprentice to a barber-surgeon. But Martin's heart burns with a fire, a calling to serve God that grows stronger with each passing day. In a society so restric...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode One: A Humble Heart Lima, Peru. 1579. In the Spanish colony, a society fractures along race and class lines. Natives and African slaves toil while Spanish elites prosper. From these dusty streets, a mixed-race hero emerges - the son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed slave. His hands heal and his faith inspires. But in a l...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Five: The Siege of Orleans 1429 AD: The Siege of Orleans. The final battle that determines France’s fate. Either they push the English back or they will be crushed by the besieging enemy. But Joan’s generals conspire behind her and the French soldiers, used to defeat, show no signs of victory. Joan of Arc, young ma...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Four: The Maid A creaky inn yards from the dauphin’s palace. Joan is here, waiting. The dauphin’s advisors are slow to let anyone near the prince. Everyone is a threat, even this strange young girl who says she hears voices from God. They interrogate Joan for weeks while the siege of Orleans continues. Will Joan re...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Three: The Patriot Laxart’s seventeen year old niece, Joan of Arc, bangs on his door in the early hours of the morning. She walked thirteen miles alone. In the dark. In a war torn country. A country weary from one hundred years of war. God has chosen her to save France, but can Joan convince a war general to listen to a...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Two: The Girl France, 1429 AD. Five years have passed. France is still losing. Slowly. The Dauphin is hiding in Chinon. What is left of the French army cowers in Orleans, besieged by the English. When Orleans falls, so will France. Joan, the peasant girl who has never rode a horse before, receives messages from divine messenge...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode One: Daughter of God The Hundred Years War, France. 1424 AD. England and France have waged war for 87 years. France is dying. Everyday, the English press further and further into France, claiming it for their own. In the unremarkable French village of Domremy, a peasant girl is picking flowers and singing innocently in the spr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Five: The Empress The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Father Martin has helped Adelaide and Myra escape from their prison cell. But will they be able to get away before King Berengar's soldiers find them again? And who will aid the virtuous queen in defeating her vicious foes?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Four: The Prisoners The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Queen Adelaide and her loyal maidservant, Myra, escaped from Castle Orbe. But they've been captured by Lord Berengar's men, and lie imprisoned in another castle dungeon. Now they wonder: will they ever see freedom again?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Three: Taking Flight The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Despite Queen Adelaide’s warnings of danger in the court, her husband King Lothar refused to listen. Poisoned by a treacherous rival, his death leaves Adelaide with few allies to protect her. Now, she must use her wits and her faith to avoid falling victim t...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Two: Becoming Queen The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 948 A.D. Reluctantly, Princess Adelaide has married Lothar, a man of questionable integrity. But as her faith and virtue begin to influence him, the couple receives startling news: Lothar will ascend the throne and Adelaide will be queen. Suddenly, the young royal newlyweds...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode One: A Reluctant Bride The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 947 A.D. It's Princess Adelaide's sixteenth birthday, but she's the only one not celebrating. Forced into a marriage she doesn’t want, she’s about to discover that God’s plans for her are even better than her own. This is the story of Adelaide of Burgun...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Five: Rebirth France. 1148 A.D. Twenty years have passed since Drogo was sealed in his cold anchorite cell. Horribly deformed and still wracked with sadness, the once-handsome Drogo is visited by his faithful friends. Will his life of prayerful solitude and sacrifice finally give him the peace and mercy he longs for?  🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Four: A Hero’s Welcome Rome, Italy. October, 1128 A.D. The young, handsome and troubled Drogo has been worn down by his many unsuccessful pilgrimages to Rome. But his faith is undeterred. Now, he faces the greatest challenge of his life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Three: Road to Redemption France. October, 1124 A.D. Drogo has learned of his unique spiritual gift of bilocation, but still can’t shake his obsession: to confess his sins to the Holy Father in Rome. As he embarks on his quest to meet the pope, what challenges and adventures await him? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episode...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Two: Communion France. 1124 A.D. Eighteen-year-old Drogo left the security of his home, seeking absolution for a sin he didn’t commit. Now, the troubled young man is convinced he can’t receive forgiveness unless he confesses to the Holy Father himself. Can his new friends in France help him to heal his wounds, and...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode One: Beautiful Stranger Flanders. 1123 A.D. In a world of faith and devotion, a handsome young man is haunted by a loss he can never forget. But his quest for forgiveness is just the beginning of a journey to discover the power and beauty of God’s perfect and infinite mercy. This is the story of St. Drogo. 🌐 Subscribe f...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Four: Mary’s Academy Spring, 1869. Ten years have passed since Adele began teaching the children of the Wisconsin frontier. With Our Lady's help, the settlers have gradually opened up their hearts and homes to Adele. Now she has so many students, she is raising money to build a school for them. But she still fac...