The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode Five: The Third Apostle of Rome Italy. 1550. Philip’s Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity is growing, serving the local church in Rome. Under Philip's watchful eye, its lay members care for the sick and commit themselves to lives of deep devotion. With all this great success, Philip asks what the next steps are for hi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode Four: The Bell Rome, 1548. Philip is still up to his usual antics: converting the wayward; entertaining boys on the street; and charming everyone he meets. But his friend, Father Ignatius of Loyola, isn’t sure this amounts to a vocation. So what work is God preparing Philip for? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: http...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode Three: The New Socrates Rome. 1544. Kneeling in the catacombs, Philip feels his heart continuing to expand! He calls out in pain to the Lord, begging for this strange supernatural favor to stop. When he recovers, Philip and his friends go looking for souls in an expected place!  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode Two: The Clown Rome, 1544. Ten years have passed since Philip sold his books and gave up on a scholar’s life. Despite his best efforts to avoid the limelight, he has gained a reputation for wit and holiness in Roman society. But a hunger for something deeper spurs him on.  🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode One: The Stray Cat Italy, 1533. At the height of the Italian Renaissance, life is a game of rules. A few rich and powerful families control trade, commerce, banking, and even the Church! For those who play along, power and pleasure await! But one young man - a wealthy merchant’s son - wants to play by different rules. Th...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jeanne Jugan - Episode Five: To the Motherhouse Saint Servan, France, 1842. Jeanne's foundation for the poor flourishes under her charge. And praise for Jeanne and her friends rolls in from all over France and beyond! But not everyone is supportive...Will Jeanne’s work be taken from her - just as it starts to succeed?   🌐 Subscribe for...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jeanne Jugan - Episode Four: The Begging Basket Saint Servan, France. 1838. Jeanne and her friends have found a new place to live so they can help the poor and elderly in their care. But they have no idea how they'll afford the rent. What will happen to Jeanne’s newfound mission if faith can't pay the bills? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episod...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jeanne Jugan - Episode Three: A Zeal for Souls Saint Servan, France, 1836.  After Mirielle's death, Jeanne and Fanchon rent lodgings in Saint Servan. Now forty-four years old, Jeanne still waits patiently to find out the "special work," God promised her at eighteen. As a series of strangers come to her door,  Jeanne begins to hope for an...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jeanne Jugan - Episode Two: To Saint Servan Saint Servan, France. 1817.  Eighteen-year-old Jeanne heard God’s call.  She knows He has special work in mind for her. But what is it? Eager to find out, Jeanne attends the local church meetings of the Third Order of the Heart of Mary and volunteers at the hospital to help the sick. She w...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jeanne Jugan - Episode One: A Girl of Brittany France. 1798. Torn apart by the bloody revolution, France’s people suffer in poverty. Their Catholic faith is outlawed, and they are desperate for help. Some join the navy in hopes of a better life, but life in the navy takes fathers from their families. And some will never return. On the docks o...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Five: Her Name The crowds at the grotto swell as the authorities prepare for a riot! Will Bernadette’s visions provoke a violent insurrection? When soldiers arrive to impose control, disaster looms. What will it take now, to bring peace to the village of Lourdes? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://th...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Four: Troublemaker While Jacomet investigates Bernadette and her family, interest in the mysterious apparitions grows. But amidst the noise and confusion, Bernadette remains determined: A chapel must be built where the Lady has appeared! And the question remains: Just who is this mysterious woman appearing to her at...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Three: The Lady’s Request Bernadette’s family struggles to make sense of her visions. And people in Lourdes are talking. “The Lady” has asked Bernadette to come to the grotto every day for two weeks. What could this mysterious woman possibly want from the young peasant girl of Lourdes? And wil...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes - Episode Two: God or the Devil? Bitter poverty tears the Soubirous family apart. Desperate to serve her quarreling  parents, Bernadette goes to gather firewood. But at the dark, forbidden grotto of Massabielle, she encounters an unexpected and disturbing vision. Could it be from Heaven? Or is it from some other place? 🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Bernadette of Lourdes- Episode One: An Unwanted Child France, 1858; the remote village of Lourdes. In the prison basement they call home, a mother and father of six children face an impossible choice. Lacking enough food to feed their family, they must either send their eldest daughter away or starve. Little do they know that this child will change...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Brigid of Ireland - Episode Five: Mary of the Gael Ireland. 470 A.D. When Brigid lays down her cloak, it spreads out miraculously to cover twelve square miles - enough to found the vast monastery of Kildare Abbey! Even the pagan king is awed. But Brigid’s mission is far from over. She is called to spread the light of Christ across a land stil...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Brigid of Ireland - Episode Four: Abbess of Kildare Ireland. 465. After standing up to her pagan father, Brigid has been consecrated at Ardagh Abbey where a life of prayer and contemplation awaits. But a prophecy at her birth announced that she would transform all of Ireland. How can that happen from within the monastery's walls? 🌐 Subscribe for F...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Brigid of Ireland - Episode Three: Bride of Christ Ireland. 465 A.D. At his wit's end with the lively and unpredictable Brigid, Chieftain Dubhtach brings his red-haired daughter to the powerful King of Leinster - intent on selling Brigid to him in marriage. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free da...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Brigid of Ireland - Episode Two: Giver of Alms Ireland. 465 A.D. Brigid and Cathal eagerly learn everything they can about Christianity. That chance encounter with Patrick sparked hope in Brigid for another life. A hope that quickly becomes a consuming fire. Now sixteen years old, Brigid is determined to become a nun. But consecrated single life is...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Brigid of Ireland - Episode One: Goddess of Fire Ireland. 451 A.D. On a rugged, windswept island in the north Atlantic, the pagan Irish live a harsh and brutal life. But the light of Christianity is spreading. When a young dairy maid answers God's call, she begins a journey of discovery that will transform the future of her land… and her peo...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Forty: Jesus’s Resurrection Jesus lies in the tomb. The doors are locked where his friends wait in the upper room. Everyone is waiting - waiting for Jesus - waiting for the alleluia to return! 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://lentwiththesaints.com/    Get free daily episodes delivered to y...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Thirty Nine: Jesus on the Cross Good Friday is here. This is the walk we’ve been preparing for all during Lent. Jesus is carrying the Cross today - for you and for me. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://lentwiththesaints.com/    Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along wi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Thirty Eight: Jesus in the Garden The city is quiet. The stars are out. And Jesus has slipped away into a garden to pray — preparing for the walk to Calvary. Tomorrow he must carry his Cross up the mountain of Calvary. Let’s go into the garden - let’s stay close to Jesus as his Passion and Death appr...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Thirty Seven: Jesus at the Last Supper The lamb is roasting, the bread is baking, and the kitchen is crowded and loud — because Jesus and his friends are here to eat the Passover meal. Come. Let’s go into the upper room! 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://lentwiththesaints.com/    Get...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Thirty Six: Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet Jesus and his friends are preparing to eat the Passover meal. But first, there’s something he wants to do for them. Let’s enter into the scene with Kiley, staying close to Jesus this Holy Week. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://lentwiththesaints.com /...