The Saints

🏔️ 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 🗺️ 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 🗺️ Paul Miki - Episode Five: Calvary Imprisoned with the Spanish Franciscans, the Japanese Jesuits - Diogo, Joao and Paul - are forced to walk 600 miles barefoot through the snow toward Nishizaka Hill, where a terrible choice awaits them.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily episodes delivered to your...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Paul Miki - Episode Four: Footprints in the Snow With the Spanish naval ship grounded in Shikoku, its officers clash with local authorities. Now, Japanese seminarian Paul Miki must intervene to avoid an explosive conflict, with potentially deadly consequences for the Christians. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/   ...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Paul Miki - Episode Three: The San Felipe Incident The new ruler of Japan has outlawed and expelled all priests from his kingdom. But the Jesuits have decided to stay, ministering secretly. Hiding in a Jesuit safehouse in Osaka, Paul and Father Organtino receive alarming news. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    G...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Paul Miki - Episode Two: A Change of Scenery Nearly a year after the violent overthrow of Nobunaga, the Jesuits have fled to the relative safety of Nagasaki, a city under Portuguese control. Still uncertain of their future, Paul and his Jesuit brothers are summoned for an emergency meeting with their provincial. What news awaits them?  🌐 Subscribe...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Paul Miki - Episode One: God’s Samurai 1582. Azuchi, Japan: An ancient, warlike civilization controlled by a supreme ruler and his samurai. But a new way of life, introduced by European Jesuit missionaries thirty years earlier, is starting to take root. And one young man, the son of a samurai, seeks to find his place as a Japanese Christian. This i...

🏔️ 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....

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Bosco - Episode Five: The Fatherless Father 1855. Tommaso has embraced the revolution and left the Oratory. Father Bosco, who’s worked so passionately for the good of the young men of Italy, is heartbroken. What is he to do now? How should he proceed when it feels as though he's failed terribly? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://th...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Bosco - Episode Four: Great Is Thy Faithfulness 1855. Father Bosco's Oratory thrives, and has grown beyond what even he could have imagined. But the dangerous revolutionary spirit still lingers among the people of Italy. When one of The Oratory's youngest and brightest boys falls under its spell, Father Bosco must work out how to rescue him. ...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Bosco - Episode Three: Lurking at the Door 1853. With a new permanent home, the Oratory is finally secure, and Fr. Bosco works hard to expand it. Nearly a hundred boys receive food, shelter, and training in the Oratory’s growing trade school. Everything is running smoothly, until a charismatic revolutionary pays a visit... 🌐 Subscribe for Fre...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Bosco - Episode Two: Children of the Revolution 1851. Three years after the launch of the Sicilian Revolution. Father Bosco runs "The Oratory,” a ministry devoted to orphaned boys and young men in Turin. With more of them joining, the Oratory boys need a permanent home. But how will Father Bosco find a place to house their growing numbers?  🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Bosco - Episode One: The Fatherless Boy Northern Italy, 1824. In the remote hillside village of Becchi, a nine-year-old farmboy grows up fatherless. When other boys taunt and bully him, he fights back hard with his fists, until a mysterious dream reveals another path. This is the story of John Bosco.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: http...