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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Stanley Rother - Episode Five: Countdown July, 1981. Guatemala. Father Stanley has returned to his parish and his people. As he and his friends prepare for the local Feast of St. James, an unexpected visitor arrives, with an unwelcome message. Now, Father Stanley Rother faces the choice that will define his life.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episod...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Stanley Rother - Episode Four: Retreat Santiago Atitlán, 1980. As more Catholic and indigenous people disappear, Father Stanley and his helpers remain steadfast, serving the Tz’utujil people and proclaiming the hope of the Gospel. But now, renewed threats force Father Stanley to ask: Is it time to abandon this dangerous mission, and say goodbye to...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Stanley Rother - Episode Three: Unrest 1980. Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. Against all hope, Father Stanley searches for Diego's body in the dense forest outside the village. And as the civil war heats up, Stanley and his catechists face an impossible challenge: minister to the Tz'utujil people, while staying out of the deathsquads’ crosshairs.  🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Stanley Rother - Episode Two: Road Trip It’s 1968, a year of protest and violent civil unrest. Thirty-three year old Father Stanley Rother has been dutifully serving the people of Oklahoma for five years. But now, his bishop calls him to a private meeting, and proposes a move: from the safety of America’s heartland, to the uncertainty of a small na...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Stanley Rother - Episode One: Gospel Plow 1959. America. On a humble family farm in central Oklahoma, a young man, rejected from his true calling, wonders what life has in store for him. When a new opportunity arises, he jumps at it, and begins a heroic journey to places far from the fields of Okarche. This is the story of Stanley Rother. 🌐 Subscr...

🏔️ 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 🗺️ Kateri Tekakwitha - Episode Five: Kahnawake Murderous bounty hunters chase Kateri and André as they race northwards, towards freedom at the mission of Kahnawake. It’s just a few hours’ away at the top of Lake Champlain, but will Kateri and Andre make it there safely before they’re caught? Can Kateri finally be reunited with her cousin? 🌐 Subscribe...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Kateri Tekakwitha - Episode Four: Up The River Kateri and André paddle northwards, to the safety of the Christian mission at Kahnawake. But when her uncle Okwaho discovers their escape, their lives are in danger. Will they be stopped before they can reach the mission? What dangers await them as they make their way through the wilderness? 🌐 Subscri...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Kateri Tekakwitha - Episode Three: Time to Fly Tekakwitha is faced with a choice: be baptized and risk her life, or obey her family’s wishes and never become a Christian. With threats and tensions mounting, Tekakwitha and Abbé Jacques must get her out of danger, before it’s too late! 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.co...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Kateri Tekakwitha - Episode Two: Proposals and Expectations After months of preparation, a great feast marks a new alliance among the Mohawk. Tekakwitha will marry the son of a great Mohawk chief! But since hearing the Good News of the Gospel, Tekakwitha can’t shake her conviction that she is called to another life.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Epi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Kateri Tekakwitha - Episode One: The Blackrobes 1673. The Mohawk Nation village of Caughnawaga, in present day New York. With a new ceasefire between the Mohawk and the French, Jesuit missionary priests return to the wary Mohawk. But one young indigenous woman, the niece of the tribe’s chief, comes to them with a surprising request. That woman’s na...

🏔️ 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 Daily Epi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Four: Kidnapped August 13th, 1917. Governor Santos has kidnapped Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco to prevent them from meeting the miraculous Lady at the Cova. As their parents desperately search for them, the Governor begins his interrogation, determined to put an end to their visions by any means necessary. 🌐 Subscribe...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Three: Vision of Hell June 13th, 1917. Fatima. A month has passed since The Lady first appeared, and the children are shocked to find a crowd waiting at the Cova. Jacinta's slip of the tongue has spread their story across Portugal, igniting a firestorm of reactions. Some rejoice at the news of a miracle, others remain s...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Two: Many Rosaries May 1917. The world spirals into war, with Nazis and Communists rising to power. The faithful in Portugal pray for a miracle amidst growing religious persecution and global violence. In Fatima, three ordinary children, Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco, are stunned when an angel appears to them. Returning...

Our Lady of Fatima: Episode One Description: 🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima- Episode One: Angel of Peace Fatima, Portugal. 1916. The world is gripped by a world war of unspeakable scale. The new Portuguese First Republic prepares to join the war on the side of the allies. In Fatima, the governor begins imposing the government’s anti-Catholic policies on his tr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Five: To the Top! On the second floor of the grand Frassati mansion, Pier Giorgio lies paralyzed in bed, cut down at twenty-four years of age by a mysterious affliction. Doctor Sarto arrives to care for him. As daring plans take shape to get a medicine which could cure him, Pier Giorgio gives Marco some vitally impor...

🏔️ 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 Free D...

🏔️ 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...