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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Five: The Great Fire Robinsonville, 1871. The Wisconsin summer is hot and dry with record breaking winds - the perfect conditions for wildfires. But fire isn’t the only danger facing Adele's new school.  Lies and gossip have spread more quickly than the flames, and have reached the ears of Green Bay’s...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Three: This Wild Country 1859. The woods near Robinsonville, Wisconsin. On their long hike home from Sunday Mass, Adele and her friends are stopped in their tracks. The lady in white has returned, revealing herself to be the Queen of Heaven! And now, she has a new mission for Adele!  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily E...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Two: The Queen of Heaven October, 1859. As the harsh winter sets in, the settlers of Robinsonville work hard to prepare, using every last hour of daylight remaining. Meanwhile Adele is shaken by the strange appearance of the lady in white. Who could she be? And why has she appeared to Adele? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Dail...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode One: Adele’s Promise The Wisconsin frontier. October, 1859. A young Belgian woman and her family struggle to stay alive in their harsh New World surroundings. They came to America for space, opportunity, and the promise of a new and prosperous life. But nature conspires against them, and the people have turned a...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Five: The Champion of the Dominicans Paris. 1256. Thomas arrives back in Paris, but not everyone is pleased at his return. With the Dominicans still distrusted by many in the Church, some will go to any lengths to drive Thomas and all the Dominicans into oblivion.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaint...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Four: The Dumb Ox Aquino, Italy. 1245. The new year finds Thomas still locked in the castle tower, determined to stay until his brothers relent. But his sister Theodora has other ideas. With the help of some adventurous Dominican friars, she has a plan to free Thomas, and to send him to the safety of Paris, where he’l...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Three: The Prisoner of Aquino Aquino, Italy. 1244 A.D. Imprisoned in a tower by his own family, Thomas is determined to become a Dominican friar. But how? When a mysterious visitor arrives from Naples with secret gifts, Thomas gets everything he needs to complete his first year of Dominican studies. But his brothers are det...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Two: A Dominican Fugitive  Italy. 1244. With conflict between Pope and Emperor at a standstill, peace comes with a cost. Against his Father’s wishes, Thomas studies at the University of Naples rather than return to the Benedictines in Monte Cassino. But when even more disastrous news arrives from Naples, Thomas&r...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode One: The Knights of Aquino Italy. 1239 A.D. The Aquino family’s castle lies halfway between two powerful forces: The pope in Rome, and the Holy Roman Emperor in Naples. When conflict arises, which power will this noble family support? And will their youngest son fall in line with them? This is the story of Thomas Aqui...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Five: Her Name The crowds at the grotto swell as the authorities prepare for a riot! Will Bernadette’s visions provoke a violent insurrection? When soldiers arrive to impose control, disaster looms. What will it take now, to bring peace to the village of Lourdes? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://th...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Four: Troublemaker While Jacomet investigates Bernadette and her family, interest in the mysterious apparitions grows. But amidst the noise and confusion, Bernadette remains determined: A chapel must be built where the Lady has appeared! And the question remains: Just who is this mysterious woman appearing to her at...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Three: The Lady’s Request Bernadette’s family struggles to make sense of her visions. And people in Lourdes are talking. “The Lady” has asked Bernadette to come to the grotto every day for two weeks. What could this mysterious woman possibly want from the young peasant girl of Lourdes? And wil...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Two: God or the Devil? Bitter poverty tears the Soubirous family apart. Desperate to serve her quarreling  parents, Bernadette goes to gather firewood. But at the dark, forbidden grotto of Massabielle, she encounters an unexpected and disturbing vision. Could it be from Heaven? Or is it from some other place? 🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes- Episode One: An Unwanted Child France, 1858; the remote village of Lourdes. In the prison basement they call home, a mother and father of six children face an impossible choice. Lacking enough food to feed their family, they must either send their eldest daughter away or starve. Little do they know that this child will change...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Five: The Penitent As their interview comes to a close, Father Giovanni realizes the supernatural effects Maria's act of mercy has had in Alessandro's life, on her family, and all of Italy... 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Four: The Angel Maria's holiness in radically forgiving Alessandro gives Father Giovanni the evidence he needs. But how can he make sense of a vicious murderer's conversion and transformation into a gentle man of faith? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily episodes d...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Three: The Survivors Father Giovanni fills in the gaps of Alessandro's first-hand account with the testimony he received from Assunta Gorreti. There has been a horrible crime, but can he discover the evidence he’ll need to elevate her cause for canonization? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcas...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Two: The Victim Intent on solving the mystery of Maria Goretti, the girl martyr already popularly revered across Italy, Holy See investigator Father Giovanni finds himself in the garden of a Capuchin monastery, slowly drawing out the details from the victim's murderer. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintsp...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode One: The Witness Italy, 1940. The memory of a murdered child has gripped the country for decades, causing a stir of devotion to her across the entire country. Now, a special investigator has been sent from Rome to discover the truth of her story. He begins with her family, but is soon sent to an unlikely witness: the man who...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Five: The Way of the Cross 1946: Poland’s suffering may finally be over. Her people are enjoying greater freedom, and Karol walks openly as a newly ordained priest. But this sense of relief is quickly scattered when Communism tightens its grip. Now Father Karol finds himself torn - between his d...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Four: Seminary Risking everything, Karol secretly enters a hidden seminary to begin his studies for the priesthood. But what he doesn’t know is something that could end his formation and his life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily epi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Three: Living Flame Amidst the desolation of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Karol delves more deeply into the writings of St. John of the Cross, and discovers a new calling: to the holy priesthood! But as Communism rises and the Nazi invaders grow even more menacing, is now the right time for Karol to...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Two: The Dark While Poland slowly strangles in the grip of the Third Reich, Karol finds himself in “a dark night of the soul”. Yearning for consolation and guidance, he discovers the writings of a saint who speaks to him across the ages.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode One: Invasion Krakow, Poland. 1939. The unthinkable has come to pass: Hitler’s Nazis have invaded by air and land, and taken control of the country. With lives threatened and Polish culture being slowly eradicated, nineteen-year-old Karol Wojtyla is desperate to save his homeland and his people...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Five: Miracle of the Sun Fatima, October 13th, 1917. The children prepare to meet the Lady for the sixth and final time. Today, they’ve been promised a miracle that everyone will see. As storm clouds gather over the Cova, will the anxious crowd witness the miracle and believe in the Lady? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Dai...