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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Isaac Jogues - Episode Five: A Hero’s Welcome With the cover of night, Father Isaac steals quietly towards the Hudson River, and the Dutch ship that will rescue him. He arrives in France to a hero’s welcome, the most celebrated Catholic priest of his day. But is he, as some say, “a living saint?” Summoned to the royal palace of Versailles for an au...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Isaac Jogues - Episode Four: Escape from Ossernenon With the deaths of René and Ahatsistari, Father Isaac is completely friendless among the Mohawks. Or is he? Resolved to continue his mission to the natives, he receives an unexpected visit that brings new hope, and a question: Should he remain a slave in captivity, or does God have another plan fo...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Isaac Jogues - Episode Three: The Sign of the Cross Captured by the Mohawks, Father Isaac, Ahatsistari, and René are led into the wilderness -  deep into Mohawk territory - away from their friends...their country…and everything familiar. As they cross a raging river, a deafening sound emerges from the hilltop ahead: Ossernenon – the great Mohawk fo...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Isaac Jogues - Episode Two: You Have Her Help Disease. Bitter Cold. Famine. The constant threat of ambush and violent death. Faced with these dangers, Father Jogues struggles to gain the trust of the native peoples. They are dying from a mysterious new disease. But a few of the Huron have been baptized. And Father Jogues is about to meet a young Fr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Isaac Jogues - Episode One: A Foolish Endeavor The North Atlantic, 1636. Three great colonial powers - France, Britain and the Dutch Republic - vie for control of North America, forging alliances with three great powers in the New World - the Huron, Algonquin and Mohawk nations. At stake is territory stretching from the St. Lawrence River to the Gr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint George - Episode Five: The One True God Awaiting his sentence in jail, George is called before Diocletian, for one last chance to live. Will he remain steadfast? Will he, with God’s help, be able to soften the emperor’s heart, and prevent the coming persecution? How will he stop the Dragon? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesai...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint George - Episode Four: The Cross Two forces engage in a deadly conflict. Diocletian insists on punishing his Christian subjects, while George refuses to stand by in silence. Will George continue as a Roman soldier, or will he lay down his sword to fight the Dragon another way? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint George - Episode Three: The Dragon Following his disastrous meeting with the emperor, George wakes to a shocking surprise. A new edict has been posted. All Church property will be confiscated, and Christians must pledge allegiance to Roman gods, or face imprisonment. Can George change Diocletian’s mind and stop the persecution…before it’s too...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint George - Episode Two: The Fire Nicomedia, 302 A.D. Emperor Diocletian returns to a disunified state. Christians are being blamed for the neglect and ruin of pagan temples. George, a rising star in the Roman military, now faces a choice between his country and his faith. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Ge...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint George - Episode One: The Neighbors Cappadocia, 280 A.D. A Roman Empire in crisis. Political unrest, civil wars, and economic instability threaten its existence. When their crops fail in the jagged hills, pagan farmers blame a local Christian family. So begins the story of Saint George. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintsp...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Perpetua and Felicity - Episode Five: Martyrs The prison in Carthage. 203 A.D. The time has come. Perpetua and Felicity say goodbye to their loved ones, and give their infant children to other families. Now they face final judgment, and one last chance to save themselves. What will they choose? Apostasy and a return to their former lives? Or death...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Perpetua and Felicity - Episode Four: Visionaries Carthage, North Africa. 203 A.D. Imprisoned for refusing to worship the Roman gods, Perpetua and Felicity are starting to crack. Felicity gives birth to her child in prison, and Perpetua fears for her infant son’s future if she dies. Can these two young mothers hold out and remain faithful? Or shoul...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Perpetua and Felicity - Episode Three: Prisoners Carthage, 203 A.D. The newly baptized Perpetua and Felicity languish in a dank Roman prison, awaiting news of their judgment and fate. Felicity is seven months pregnant, and Perpetua, a young nursing mother, wonders what the soldiers have done with her baby. Will she ever see him again? 🌐 Subscribe...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Perpetua and Felicity - Episode Two: Christians Carthage, 203 A.D. Rome’s cruel persecution of Christians has begun. Young Perpetua and Felicity - now fully catechized - flee to the forest to be secretly baptized. But they’re not alone. Roman soldiers have been sent to stop them. Will they make it in time? And what punishments await if they’re caug...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Perpetua and Felicity - Episode One: Mothers North Africa. 202 A.D. In the ancient Roman city of Carthage, harshness rules. Women and girls are the property of their fathers and husbands. Slaves serve their wealthy masters, and are treated as things. But a new religion - Christianity -  offers freedom for all, and threatens to turn Roman power upsi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Vianney - Episode Five: The Curé of Ars Écully, France. 1815. Father Balley’s death devastates his friend and former student, the newly ordained Father Jean-Marie Vianney. Now, the people of Écully want Jean-Marie as their pastor. But his superiors have other ideas. Jean-Marie vows to go wherever God calls him, and takes on the work that will...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Vianney - Episode Four: Overcoming Obstacles France, 1810. Hidden against his will by the renegade villagers of Les Noes, the accidental deserter Jean-Marie is a popular stranger, known to all as the kindly and helpful “Jerome”. But runaway soldiers are criminals, and Jean-Marie can’t stay hidden forever. What will he do when the army comes lo...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Vianney - Episode Three: An Unexpected Detour France, 1809. Jean-Marie’s pilgrimage has been successful. Back at Father Balley’s school, to everyone’s surprise, he’s finding his studies much easier! But when a letter arrives with an official demand, Jean-Marie’s life takes an unexpected turn. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesa...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Vianney - Episode Two: Forgetting and Failure France, 1806. The revolution has failed. Napoleon Bonaparte rules imperial France, and Catholics can worship again freely. Jean-Marie still wants to be a priest, but is he now too old? Can he overcome his discouraging doubts, and the grappins that plague him?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Vianney - Episode One: The Hiders France, 1793. A bloody revolution has outlawed religion. Churches have been desecrated. Tens of thousands guillotined. Priests are being hunted and killed. In the small farming town of Dardilly, one brave family risks everything to help these priests, an act of courage their 7-year old son will never forget. T...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas More- Episode Five: God’s First June, 1535. Thomas has been locked in the Tower of London for over a year. After several long trials, the king’s authorities have failed to convict Thomas of treason. As the months pass, Thomas remains resolved not to violate his conscience, or the teachings of the Church. But how long can he hold out? And how...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas More - Episode Four: The King’s Faithful Servant 1534. King Henry has gotten his way, and has married Anne Boleyn. But he hasn't forgotten Thomas’ silent disapproval. Now Henry and Cromwell accuse Thomas of lying under oath. England’s proud king will not rest until all have sworn allegiance to his new and unholy marriage. 🌐 Subscribe for Fr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas More - Episode Three: Merry Beggars London, 1532. Just three years after becoming the first layman appointed as Lord High Chancellor of England, Thomas More faces a choice: maintain his position and the King’s favor, or deny Church teaching and lose his soul. Now, he must negotiate not only the king’s displeasure, but also the treachery and...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas More - Episode Two: The Lord Chancellor London, 1529. Several months have passed since Meg’s miraculous recovery, and the More family thrives in joyful activity: They welcome Cecily's first child, and celebrate John and Anne’s engagement. But while Thomas’ family grows and flourishes, the Tudor royal family shows signs of breaking apart. 🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas More - Episode One: A Merry Gentleman London,1527. England’s charismatic King Henry VIII has a problem: almost twenty years into his reign, he has no male heir! Now, he comes to the home of his most trusted friend and advisor with a remedy - a bold plan that will set the two men at odds, and plunge Europe into bloody war. This is the story o...