The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Five: The Fortunate One Bakhita’s faith has grown in her months with the Canossian Sisters. She’s learned to pray, and has even begun the difficult task of forgiving her tormentors. But when she refuses Maria’s demand that she return to Africa, her faith is put to the test, and she faces the greatest trial of her life....

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Four: The House of God Bakhita and little Mimmina arrive at the Institute of the Catechumens’ convent school in Venice. She still seeks the Maker of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, longing to find and know Him. But when Maria returns from Sudan, Bakhita is faced with a choice...  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Three: The Servant The Ligurian coast. 1885. On a fine spring day in Genoa, sixteen year old Bakhita steps onto Italian soil, and tastes freedom for the first time since her abduction. What fortune awaits her in this foreign land? And will she ever be truly free? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspod...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Two: The Slave Suakin, Sudan. 1883. Six long years have passed since Bakhita was abducted from her village. Abused and sold several times, she now finds herself, at the age of fourteen, enslaved by the cruelest people she has ever known. But are her fortunes about to change?  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https:...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode One: The Awestruck Child Turin, Italy, 1935. The normally quiet convent of Canossian religious sisters is in an uproar. A special visitor has arrived, a fellow sister born in faraway Sudan, in northeast Africa. She has come to relate the amazing story of her life. But can the sisters find her? This is the story of Joseph...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode Five: Maryland It’s 1808. With the success of the girls’ school in Baltimore, Archbishop Carroll has sent Elizabeth and her followers to rural Emmitsburg, to formally establish the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. But when illness strikes again, Elizabeth's faith will be tested like never before. 🌐 Subscribe for Free...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode Four: Hazard Yet Forward Back in New York, Elizabeth and her family depend on the charity of their wealthy Protestant community. But she cannot forget her time in Italy, and her discovery of the Holy Eucharist at the Catholic Mass. Will Elizabeth risk everything by leaving her Protestant community for the Catholic Chur...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode Three: Their Real Presence March, 1804. Two months after William's death, Elizabeth and Annina are still in Italy, waiting for the ship that will bring them home to New York. As she struggles with her recent widowhood, Elizabeth has an encounter that awakens a new faith in her, even as her family’s financial prospects...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode Two: In the Lazarreto 1803. One year after the collapse of William’s business, the Seton family has grown. But their financial worries and William's illness are worse than ever. Advised to travel abroad for William’s health, the Setons spend their last pennies getting to Italy. Nothing prepares them for the trials lyin...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode One: Certain Doom New York City. 1802. In post-Revolutionary War Manhattan, the rich and powerful gather to dance and celebrate the birthday of President George Washington. Among them is a woman whose charmed life is about to change. This is the true story of Elizabeth Ann Seton. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: h...

🏔️ 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/  Get...

🏔️ 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 🗺️ 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 🗺️ 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...