The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Katharine Ann Drexel - Episode Five: A New Order 1889. Back in Philadelphia after their trip to the wild American west, the Drexel sisters enjoy dinner and regale Uncle Tony with stories of their adventures. They each have exciting news. But when Katherine shares hers, Uncle Tony is less than pleased. And Katherine’s decision soon makes headlines a...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Katharine Ann Drexel - Episode Four: Heading West The Drexel Estate, Torresdale, Philadelphia. 1887. Fresh from her trip to Rome and her meeting with Pope Leo, Katharine is plagued with competing desires. She wants the life of a contemplative religious sister, but the pope has encouraged her to missionary work! Desperate to resolve this dilemma, sh...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Katharine Ann Drexel - Episode Three: All Three The Drexel family estate. Philadelphia, 1885. Having lost their mother, and now their father, the three Drexel sisters stay at home in mourning. But an unexpected visit from Uncle Tony brings them startling news: Their father left a will! Are their fortunes about to change? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Katharine Ann Drexel - Episode Two: Distractions Philadelphia, 1883. Following the death of their dear mother, the three Drexel sisters are now worried for their father, Francis. He rarely leaves his room, and is acting…strangely. Now, he emerges from his gloomy den with astonishing new plans for the family. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: ht...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Katharine Ann Drexel - Episode One: Family Adventures New Years Eve, 1876. Philadelphia. As the newly formed United States begins its 100th year, 18-year old debutante Katie Drexel is in a celebratory mood. Her wealthy family has everything to look forward to. But soon, unwelcome events take her in a direction she never imagined. This is the story...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Five: Followers As followers begin to join his ranks, Francis seeks greater confirmation from God. Will rebuilding San Damiano, a ruined church, matter at all? Can God use these impoverished beggars to build His Kingdom? But as more people begin to follow Francis, he begins to attract enemies as well. 🌐 Subscribe for Fr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Four: Renunciation Calling Francis a thief, Pietro drags him in front of the Bishop in the town square, the piazza. Accused of theft and disrespect, Francis is humiliated. Will Francis face punishment for selling the family’s silks to rebuild San Damiano? Have his dreams of serving God been destroyed before they ever beg...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Three: San Damiano After angering his father by touching a leper, Francis’ father Pietro commands him to meet with Bishop Guido. But as he waits to meet Bishop Guido, God is preparing Francis for a divine mission that will impact the world for thousands of years. Something that not even the Bishop can imagine.  🌐 Subscr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Two: The Leper Recovering at home after being captured in war, Francis slowly comes back to health. But as he returns to normal life, he is not the same. His behavior draws attention and hurts the family reputation. A voice from his dreams haunts him: “Will you follow the man or the master?” 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily E...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode One: The Knight Assisi, Italy. 1202 A.D. Francesco di Bernardino is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, Italy. Between lavish parties and manly sport, Francesco doesn’t have much time for God. But when he joins the war between Assisi and Perugia, his life is fated to change. Forever. This is the true story of...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Five: We’ve Only Just Begun Auschwitz. 1941. As hunger and thirst pull Fr. Kolbe toward death, he recalls a pivotal moment in the early days of the Militia Immaculatae. Now, as Nazi guards observe him in his prison cell, only one question is on their minds: How long can this priest last? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episo...

🏔️ 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 strengt...

🏔️ 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.  🌐 Subscribe for...

🏔️ 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 Nazis, wi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Clare of Assisi - Episode Five: Canticle of the Creatures Assisi, Italy. 1206 A.D. It's been twelve years since Monaldo's brutal attack on Clare's sister Catarina. Clare has become abbess of a convent at San Damiano, and the ranks of her "Poor Ladies" have grown. But now, everyone's concern is for the ailing Francesco, who grows weaker by the day. ...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Clare of Assisi - Episode Four: Pursuing Lady Poverty Clare races through the night to the Church of Saint Mary of the Angels, but she's not safe yet. Her escape from the family palace has been discovered! Now, she must flee to the safety of a cloistered convent before Monaldo and his men can capture her. Will Clare make it? Or will she be dragged...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Clare of Assisi - Episode Three: Renegade Clare and her sister Catarina steal away in secret to visit San Damiano, the church Francesco and their cousin are restoring. Inspired by their singular devotion to God, Clare makes a radical decision from which there's no going back. But will her uncle ever allow it?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Clare of Assisi- Episode Two: A Family Disgrace Clare's refusal to marry Lord Ranieri enrages her uncle Monaldo. Even worse, she wants only to follow God in religious life! Now, the young, charismatic Francesco di Berndardone - the man who loves lepers - performs a public gesture that shocks everyone, and confirms Clare’s desire to fulfill a secret...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Clare of Assisi - Episode One: Finding Francesco Assisi, Italy, 1194 A.D. A girl born to a noble family is destined to be “a great light, a source of illumination to many.” Pressured by her family towards an unwanted early marriage, this independent young woman fights to live out another, higher vocation. This is the story of Clare of Assisi. 🌐 Su...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Edith Stein - Episode Five: Atonement Germany, 1933. Adolph Hitler has risen to power, and the people trade their freedom for the promise of German greatness. As the Nazis systematically remake German society in their own image, Edith, now a respected scholar and teacher, writes to the Pope, condemning those who have enabled and allowed Hitler's op...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Edith Stein - Episode Four: Metanoia 1923. On a weekend visit to Hatti and Autos' farm, thirty-two year old Edith discovers a book that changes her life. Now, what lies ahead for the brilliant young philosopher from Breslau? And how will her family respond?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily episo...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Edith Stein - Episode Three: Seeking Truth Germany, 1916. Edith returns from her service with the Red Cross, but the Great War rages on. And soon, events make Edith even more determined to never stop seeking the Truth. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Edith Stein - Episode Two: Gottingen 1913. Two years into her university studies, Edith is still resolute in her search for Truth. She wants to study philosophy in far-away Gottingen, but needs her mother's blessing. And as she makes new friends and encounters exciting new ideas, an unexpected event in distant Sarajevo is about to change her entire...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Edith Stein - Episode One: Life in a Jewish Family Breslau, Germany, 1903. In a rapidly changing world, full of new ideas, opportunities and dangers, a brilliant fourteen-year-old girl faces a heartbreaking choice: rest in the faith of her family, or venture into an unknown world, pursuing her hunger for the Truth. This is the story of Edith Stein....