🏔️ 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 Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with...
Apr 12, 2024•12 min•Ep. 110
🏔️ 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 Guatemala? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily epis...
Apr 11, 2024•10 min•Ep. 109
🏔️ 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. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered ...
Apr 10, 2024•12 min•Ep. 108
🏔️ 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 nation entrenched in a vicious civil war. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspod...
Apr 09, 2024•12 min•Ep. 107
🏔️ 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. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to yo...
Apr 08, 2024•12 min•Ep. 106
🏔️ 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 email inbox, along with coloring pages, activity sheets, and more! 🔥 Ignite your Family’s Faith In a ...
Apr 05, 2024•14 min•Ep. 105
🏔️ 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/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with coloring pages, activity sheets, a...
Apr 04, 2024•14 min•Ep. 104
🏔️ 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/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with coloring pages, activity sheets, and...
Apr 03, 2024•15 min•Ep. 103
🏔️ 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 for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your e...
Apr 02, 2024•12 min•Ep. 102
🏔️ 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 is the true story of Paul Miki. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/...
Apr 01, 2024•18 min•Ep. 101
🏔️ 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 oppression. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episo...
Mar 29, 2024•19 min•Ep. 100
🏔️ 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 episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with coloring pages, activity sheets, and more! 🔥 Ignite you...
Mar 28, 2024•14 min•Ep. 99
🏔️ 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 with coloring pages, activity sheets, and more! 🔥 Ignite your Family’s Faith In a culture that has ...
Mar 27, 2024•14 min•Ep. 98
🏔️ 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 world. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episode...
Mar 26, 2024•12 min•Ep. 97
🏔️ 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. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes deliv...
Mar 25, 2024•13 min•Ep. 96
🏔️ 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://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with coloring pag...
Mar 22, 2024•13 min•Ep. 95
🏔️ 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. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes deliver...
Mar 21, 2024•13 min•Ep. 94
🏔️ 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 Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email in...
Mar 20, 2024•12 min•Ep. 93
🏔️ 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? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered...
Mar 19, 2024•11 min•Ep. 92
🏔️ 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: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with colorin...
Mar 18, 2024•11 min•Ep. 91
☘️ENCORE - We’re releasing Patrick of Ireland to celebrate his feast day on March 17th! 🏔️The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️Patrick of Ireland - Episode Five: Voice of the Irish 429 AD, Britannia. It is twenty one years after Patrick has escaped and returned home. He has become a priest, dedicating his life to God and ministering to the Christian Britons after Rome withdrew its military presence from Britannia. But even twenty one years later, memories of the pagan people left behi...
Mar 15, 2024•15 min•Ep. 90
☘️ENCORE - We’re releasing Patrick of Ireland to celebrate his feast day on March 17th! 🏔️The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️Patrick of Ireland - Episode Four: Abundance Everywhere Having been told to escape in a dream, Patrick is determined to find passage back home to Britannia. But without any money and marked as a slave by a neck shackle, how will Patrick get back home before Tadhg discovers his escape and exacts revenge? 🌐Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspod...
Mar 14, 2024•12 min•Ep. 89
☘️ENCORE - We’re releasing Patrick of Ireland to celebrate his feast day on March 17th! 🏔️The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️Patrick of Ireland - Episode Three: Answer Me, Lord 408 AD, the island of Ériu. Six years after being captured, Patrick is learning to live with the pagan tribe. But as famine causes the tribe to suffer, the pagan priestess searches for a scapegoat to blame for their troubles. Meanwhile, Patrick shares his faith with Caoimhe and Ari, unaware of the danger. 🌐S...
Mar 13, 2024•14 min•Ep. 88
☘️ENCORE - We’re releasing Patrick of Ireland to celebrate his feast day on March 17th! 🏔️The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️Patrick of Ireland - Episode Two: The Land of Corra Kidnapped by two pagan slave traders, Patrick and Linus find themselves sailing away from their home, sure they will never see it again. With their parents unaware of their capture and no way to return home, what dangers await Patrick in this strange new land? 🌐Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thes...
Mar 12, 2024•11 min•Ep. 87
☘️ENCORE - We’re releasing Patrick of Ireland to celebrate his feast day on March 17th! 🏔️The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️Patrick of Ireland - Episode One: A Reckless Youth Britannia, 402 AD. Christian Rome has established an outpost in Britain but is attacked by Pagan slave traders daily. The Church holds society together as Rome threatens to leave. But one rebellious Briton, rejecting his parents' faith, plunges himself into dangers he could never have imagined. This is the sto...
Mar 11, 2024•12 min•Ep. 86
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Frances Xavier Cabrini - Episode Five: Too Small a World October 1891. The Hudson River Valley, New York. Mother Cabrini moves into Manresa despite its lack of adequate water. Her plans to expand the sisters’ mission include Nicaragua, China and cities across America. But first, she must overcome strong opposition and yet more trials. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your e...
Mar 08, 2024•14 min•Ep. 85
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Frances Xavier Cabrini - Episode Four: A Proud Lineage As her orphanage in New York City expands, Mother Cabrini faces continued challenges and unscrupulous foes. And just as this savvy businesswoman and negotiator signs a deal for a new home for one-hundred orphans, another opportunity arises in a far off land. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with ...
Mar 07, 2024•15 min•Ep. 84
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Frances Xavier Cabrini - Episode Three: Things Saints Do Early morning, March 1889. New York City. With no home, no money, and no support from the local bishop, Mother Cabrini and her missionaries spend a sleepless night in a rat and bedbug infested tenement. Now, they must find a home, or go back to Italy in defeat. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along ...
Mar 06, 2024•13 min•Ep. 83
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Frances Xavier Cabrini - Episode Two: Not East, But West Italy, 1889. Mother Cabrini's missionaries are in Codogno and Milan, but Frances has much bigger plans. She is determined to bring her order to the Pope's attention and win papal approval for a mission to China. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with coloring pages, activity sheets, and more! 🔥...
Mar 05, 2024•14 min•Ep. 82
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Frances Xavier Cabrini - Episode One: House of Providence Northern Italy, 1858. In a tiny rural village, a little girl dreams of becoming a missionary. But as she gets closer to making that dream a reality, she must overcome several obstacles that stand in her way. This is the story of Frances Xavier Cabrini. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily episodes delivered to your email inbox, along with col...
Mar 04, 2024•14 min•Ep. 81
