The Saints

🏔️ 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...

🏔️ 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 Episod...

🏔️ 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 Josephi...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Five: The New Bishop Savoy, France. 1599. Francis and Louis' mission to the Chablais region has been a stunning success. His writings against the Calvinist heresy have won tens of thousands back to the Church! Home once again, they face new challenges - ones that will change Francis's life forever. 🌐 Subscribe for Free D...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Four: Winning Back Souls Savoy, France. 1594. Francis and his cousin, Father Louis, head into the Chablais region on a risky mission from their Bishop: bringing the light of the Catholic faith to those blinded by Calvinism! Warned about the dangers they’ll face, they find a welcome worse than anyone had imagined. 🌐...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Three: To the Chablais Savoy, France. 1592. Francis's desire to spend his life in the service of the Church is about to become a reality. But when it does, a new challenge faces him, one that ultimately endangers his life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get free daily epis...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode Two: An Astonishing Appointment Savoy, France. 1586. Francis yearns to become a priest, but his father has other plans. When his cousin Louis comes to his aid in an unexpected way, Francis is finally able to tell his father the truth. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/    Get fre...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Francis de Sales - Episode One: Hidden Yearnings 1574. The Savoie region of southeastern France, near Switzerland. For more than fifty years, the people of the Savoie have been deeply divided by religion: Catholics on one side, and the Protestant Calvinists on the other. One seven year old boy is particularly upset by this dire situation. This is t...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Jerome - Episode Five: A Devoted Soul Bethlehem, 380 A.D. Rumors rip through Rome like wildfire, threatening to destroy Jerome's reputation. Rather than fight the vicious gossip, Jerome flees, seeking peace in the Holy Land. But his work is far from over! The Latin translation of the Gospels complete, Jerome now turns to an even greater chall...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Jerome - Episode Four: A Listening Ear Desert of Chalcis, Syria. 375 A.D. Jerome's quest to learn Hebrew is a battle of mind and spirit. Under Yosef's watchful eye, his mind strains against the strange, unfamiliar alphabet. Days turn into a grueling cycle of frustration, fatigue, and disappointment. Yet, a burning desire to read God’s w...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Jerome - Episode Three: A Wounded Heart The Mediterranean Sea, 375 A.D. Jerome's encounter with Malchus leaves a profound mark on him. Shaken and inspired by Malchus's story, Jerome leaves Aquileia - it’s books, arguments, and comforts - and heads for Antioch at the edge of the Syrian Desert to become a monk. As Jerome sails towards Ant...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Jerome - Episode Two: A Sharp Tongue Aquilea, Northern Italy. 362 A.D. Jerome, Bonosus, and Rufinus have left the comforts of Rome to chase knowledge in foreign lands. After two years of traveling, they stop in Aquileia, a bustling port city, where fierce debates on faith and Christianity roar around them. As questions sharpen and tempers fla...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Jerome - Episode One: A Brilliant Mind Rome, 360 A.D. The Roman Empire is struggling under the weight of invasions and economic turmoil. Amidst the chaos, Christianity rises, bringing hope. But as the Gospel spreads across different lands and languages, contradicting translations lead to confusion, even heresies. The Church needs clarity, wis...

🏔️ 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. 🌐 Subscr...

🏔️ 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 pros...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth Ann Seton - Episode Two: In the Lazaretto 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...

🏔️ 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 🗺️ 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...

🏔️ 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? 🌐...

🏔️ 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://...

🏔️ 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 Fre...

🏔️ 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 woma...

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Nicholas - Episode Five: Sent to Give The Greek city of Nicaea. 325 AD. The sacred halls echo with the slap that shook the Christian world. Nicholas, the defender of Christ's divinity now finds himself in chains, stripped of all power, and of his place at the council. Now, how will the bishops vote? And can the Church survive its greatest her...