🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Four: Death’s Dirge Rome. 229 A.D. After his miraculous conversion, Cecilia’s husband Valerian is committed to the Christian faith, and more than ever to his new wife. Determined to live by God’s laws, no matter the cost, the holy young couple find themselves outside the city walls breaking the unjust laws of the Roman regime. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com / Get free daily episodes de...
Jul 03, 2025•10 min•Ep. 409
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Three: Ritual Rhythms Rome. 229 A.D. Cecilia is now married to the pagan Valerian, who has agreed to let her remain faithful in secret. But now, he receives an even bigger surprise from his new wife! Confused and dejected, the young man demands proof of his new wife’s strange, foreign faith. And she lovingly sends him to find it on Rome’s Appian Way. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get...
Jul 02, 2025•10 min•Ep. 408
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode Two: A Wedding Hymn Rome. 229 A.D. Forced to marry to preserve her life, Cecilia is trapped. Will marriage to Valerian end her dream of a life consecrated to Christ? Despite her parents' objections, Cecilia vows to reveal her Christian faith to her pagan future spouse. What happens next, surprises everyone! 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email...
Jul 01, 2025•11 min•Ep. 407
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Cecilia - Episode One: Sacred Chants The year 229 A.D. In pagan Rome, a new religion threatens the old order. Followers of Jesus Christ must hide their faith or lose their lives. But for one young noblewoman, hiding the truth and ignoring what’s right are out of the question. This is the story of Saint Cecilia. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along ...
Jun 30, 2025•11 min•Ep. 406
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Five: In The Thick of It Cascia, Italy. 1409 A.D. For more than ten years, a bitter feud has burned beneath the surface. Now Rita’s sons are pulled into its fire, consumed by the thirst for revenge. On the edge of ruin, Rita clings to the only weapons she has left: her faith, and her fortitude. As the past rises to swallow up the present, can she stop the cycle of blood before it takes away everything she loves? 🌐 Subs...
Jun 27, 2025•13 min•Ep. 405
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Four: Ambushed Italy. 1409 A.D. Unknown to Rita, her husband Paolo has been ambushed, and the cry for vengeance echoes through the streets of Cascia. With Bernardo ready to strike and danger closing in, Rita is thrust into a storm that could tear her family - and all of Cascia - apart. As her world unravels, can her faith shield the innocent, or will the vendetta shatter everything she’s fought to preserve? 🌐 Subscribe...
Jun 26, 2025•10 min•Ep. 404
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Three: Echoes of Change Italy, 1409 A.D. Sixteen years have passed, and Rita is now mother to two teenage sons, Dominic and Giovanni. The town of Cascia has grown more violent with the dangerous feud, and Rita's family has retreated quietly into the background to avoid the bloodshed. But despite their best efforts, trouble finds them… 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily epi...
Jun 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 403
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode Two: Mother, What To Do? Cascia, Italy. 1394 A.D. Rita and Paolo have been married for one year. With her parents nearing the end of their days, Rita will soon be left completely alone with her husband’s brutal family. She's sinking fast, but an unexpected hand is reaching out to help... 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with ...
Jun 24, 2025•11 min•Ep. 402
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rita of Cascia - Episode One: Denial, Denial Italy, 1393. The Black Plague devours cities, and violent crime families rule what’s left. In the shadowed hills of Cascia, a young girl dreams of peace in a world built on blood. When tragedy knocks at her family's door, she must choose: remain a bystander—or become a light in the darkness. This is the story of Rita of Cascia. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get f...
Jun 23, 2025•13 min•Ep. 401
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Five: The Martyr's Gridiron Rome, 258 A.D. Lawrence has entered into a dangerous pact with Rome’s ruthless prefect: deliver the Church’s treasure in three days, or suffer death. With five empty wagons to fill, Lawrence and the Hippolytus race against time through the maze of the catacombs. Together, they risk everything to make good on a bargain that may save Lawrence's life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https:...
Jun 20, 2025•13 min•Ep. 400
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Four: A Bargain with Rome Rome. 258 A.D. Imprisoned in a dark Roman dungeon, Lawrence, Pope Sixtus, and the seven deacons of Rome grapple with their fate. As chains clink and martyrdom looms, Lawrence's courage and faith give hope to his friends. But before paying the ultimate price, he’s determined to carry out one final act of service for the Church and the poor of Rome. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://t...
Jun 19, 2025•15 min•Ep. 399
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Three: Peril in Rome Rome. 258 A.D. Lawrence has unleashed a daring plan. He and Philip rush back to Philip's family home, just steps ahead of the Roman authorities. They'll need to collect all of the family wealth and get it safely to the catacombs, before Corvus and his soldiers find it. Will Lawrence's plan work? And can they avoid capture? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free ...
Jun 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 398
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode Two: Treasures of the Church Rome. 258 A.D. The Christian Church in Rome reels after soldiers raid the catacombs. As the faithful scatter in terror, Lawrence must navigate the treacherous Roman streets to rebuild his shattered community and fulfill his vocation. Can he outwit the brutal regime and restore hope to the faithful? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes de...
Jun 17, 2025•14 min•Ep. 397
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Lawrence - Episode One: Faith in the Catacombs Rome. 258 A.D. A young Christian foreigner enters the Eternal City for the first time with his wise old mentor. There they discover a people living in fear under authoritarian rule. What’s worse: the authorities want to kill all Christians. To survive, they’ll have to rely on their wits, and a little help from unexpected friends. This is the story of St. Lawrence. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily ...
Jun 16, 2025•16 min•Ep. 396
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Five: To Those At His Right North Korea. April, 1951. Indoctrination is imminent. The Communist Chinese rule the Pyoktong prison camp, and now seek to control not only the prisoners' actions, but their thoughts, as well. This may be the breaking point for Father Emil and his companions. But is the ruthlessness of a Communist prison enough to kill the faith of the fearless soldier-priest? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episode...
Jun 13, 2025•17 min•Ep. 395
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Four: A Cross in the Rubble Korea. November, 1950. After their surrender at the Battle of Unsan, Father Emil and his companions are prisoners of the Chinese. Forced to march northwards through the freezing Korean mountains, many American soldiers have died from exposure. And those who remain begin to wonder if death might be better than what lies ahead of them: the prison camp of Pyoktong. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episo...
Jun 12, 2025•14 min•Ep. 394
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Three: On The Way to Calvary Korea. November, 1950. Communist Chinese forces have entered the war, invading South Korea to fight against the Americans. Pinned down by enemy fire, outnumbered and outflanked, Father K and his companions fight a series of battles in the province of Unsan, struggling to save lives, and scrambling to avoid capture. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free dai...
Jun 11, 2025•11 min•Ep. 393
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode Two: Faith and Grit The Sea of Japan. July, 1950. After five short years of peace, America is at war again, in Korea, where the Communist North has invaded the democratic South. Responding to the South Koreans urgent request for help, US President Harry Truman sends American troops to aid them in battle. And Father Emil Kapaun is back in Asia and in uniform, aboard a transport ship heading from Japan to another warzone. 🌐...
Jun 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 392
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode One: The Soldier Priest South East Asia. August, 1945. The Second World War has been raging for nearly six years, claiming the lives of more than four hundred thousand American soldiers. A multitude of chaplains has been sent to minister to these men in their dying moments. One of them is a 29-year-old Catholic priest, a Kansas-born farmer’s son who finds himself in the thick of battle. This is the story of Father Emil Kap...
Jun 09, 2025•13 min•Ep. 391
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Five: The Pope’s Protector Avignon. 1375. When her attempts to negotiate peace between the Anti-Papal League and Pope Gregory fall apart, Catherine dedicates herself completely to persuading the Pope to return to Rome. This is the only way to restore peace in Italy, and unity to the Church. But the young pope’s French family and his councilors will stop at nothing to keep the papacy in France. 🌐 Subscribe for Free ...
Jun 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 390
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Four: Christ’s Scourge Italy, 1375. Bloody war continues between the Anti-Papal league and the French Papal legates. Rather than seek peace, Pope Gregory escalates the conflict by excommunicating the entire city of Florence. Catherine is on her way to Avignon, accompanied by Lapa and Raimondo, to persuade Gregory to not only seek peace, but to return to Rome. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspo...
Jun 05, 2025•13 min•Ep. 389
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Three: God’s Servant France, 1375. Through Cardinal Noellet, Pope Gregory has allied himself with Bernabo Visconti, the tyrant of Milan. And if an alliance between the pope and a warlord weren’t scandal enough, Cardinal Noellet has made matters worse by demanding money from the people of Florence. As conflict between the French Pope and Italian city-states rises, Catherine Benincasa enters the fight in earnest. 🌐 S...
Jun 04, 2025•14 min•Ep. 388
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Two: The Pope’s Pawn Siena, Italy. 1375 A.D. Thirteen years have passed since Christ sent Catherine out into the world from her pseudo-monastic life. Now, Catherine's fame as a mystic and miracle worker has spread across Europe. Her spiritual children call her "Mamma", and hang on her every word. With her father dead and her mother now a member of her lay Dominican community, Catherine cares for victims of the plagu...
Jun 03, 2025•14 min•Ep. 387
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode One: The Dyer’s Daughter Siena, Italy. 1362. A powerful tyrant has invaded the Papal States, forcing the Pope into exile in France. Meanwhile, a fifteen-year-old girl in Siena longs for life as a Third Order Dominican. While her parents arrange a marriage for her to protect their family interests, this special girl resists, insisting on marriage to the only spouse who can make her happy forever. This is the story of...
Jun 02, 2025•16 min•Ep. 386
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Five: God’s Servant Lima, Peru. The Dominican Monastery is deeply in debt, and the moneylenders have sent their workers to seize the friars’ belongings to cover what they owe. Upon learning of this, Fray Martin makes a shocking and selfless offer to save the monastery from its creditors. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along wit...
May 30, 2025•13 min•Ep. 385
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Four: The Famous Friar Lima, Peru. 1603. Despite the law prohibiting non-whites from entering religious orders, Martin has finally become a lay brother of the Dominican Order. But as he stands on the threshold of professing his solemn vows, a question hangs in the air: is the city of Lima, divided by racial prejudice and poverty, open to the blessings of a mixed-race friar? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https:...
May 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 384
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Three: Compassion Above Everything Lima, Peru. 1603. Eight years have passed since Martin was accepted as a servant in the Dominican monastery of Lima. While he finds joy in serving both the friars and the poor, whispers of discontent echo through the cloisters. Though many of the friars mistreat Martin, the wise and compassionate Father Prior rejects their prejudice, recognizing that Martin carries a flame that could...
May 28, 2025•14 min•Ep. 383
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Two: Called to Serve Lima, Peru. 1594. Five years have passed and Martin has returned to Lima, the capital of Peru. Before his mother died, she got him a job as an apprentice to a barber-surgeon. But Martin's heart burns with a fire, a calling to serve God that grows stronger with each passing day. In a society so restrictive, how can he answer God’s call? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast...
May 27, 2025•13 min•Ep. 382
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode One: A Humble Heart Lima, Peru. 1579. In the Spanish colony, a society fractures along race and class lines. Natives and African slaves toil while Spanish elites prosper. From these dusty streets, a mixed-race hero emerges - the son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed slave. His hands heal and his faith inspires. But in a land where bloodlines determine destiny, can one dark-skinned friar's compassion overcome the preju...
May 26, 2025•15 min•Ep. 381
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Five: The Siege of Orleans 1429 AD: The Siege of Orleans. The final battle that determines France’s fate. Either they push the English back or they will be crushed by the besieging enemy. But Joan’s generals conspire behind her and the French soldiers, used to defeat, show no signs of victory. Joan of Arc, young maid of Domremy, is on the battlefield at last. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.c...
May 23, 2025•11 min•Ep. 380
