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🏔️ Adventures of Faith and Courage A daily podcast bringing the Saints to life with award-winning actors, writers, and sound designers. 🌐 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 abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Fait ...
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It’s 1879! Edith and Paul Mallard climb aboard the Night Train as it races the Midnight Express across America! But as accidents delay their journey, a mysterious plot of sabotage begins to emerge. Will Edith and Paul Mallard solve the mystery of the Night Train? Or is their journey doomed to disaster? Join The Merry Beggars for a weekly adventure starting September 11, 2022.
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📥 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://AdventwithScrooge.com/ The Merry Beggars present an original Audio Advent Calendar of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol! Journey towards Christmas with Ebenezer Scrooge in a daily 10-minute episode every day of Advent. 🍎 FREE 50-Page Activity Book! When you subscribe, you'll get a 50-page activity book, including coloring pages, fun activities and puzzles, and discussion questions for all ages. You will love exploring the world of A Christmas Car ...
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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 …
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🏔️ 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 man…
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🏔️ 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 stron…
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🏔️ 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.…
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🏔️ 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 s…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Four: The Maid A creaky inn yards from the dauphin’s palace. Joan is here, waiting. The dauphin’s advisors are slow to let anyone near the prince. Everyone is a threat, even this strange young girl who says she hears voices from God. They interrogate Joan for weeks while the si…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Three: The Patriot Laxart’s seventeen year old niece, Joan of Arc, bangs on his door in the early hours of the morning. She walked thirteen miles alone. In the dark. In a war torn country. A country weary from one hundred years of war. God has chosen her to save France, but can…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode Two: The Girl France, 1429 AD. Five years have passed. France is still losing. Slowly. The Dauphin is hiding in Chinon. What is left of the French army cowers in Orleans, besieged by the English. When Orleans falls, so will France. Joan, the peasant girl who has never rode a ho…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Joan of Arc - Episode One: Daughter of God The Hundred Years War, France. 1424 AD. England and France have waged war for 87 years. France is dying. Everyday, the English press further and further into France, claiming it for their own. In the unremarkable French village of Domremy, a peasant girl is…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Five: The Empress The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Father Martin has helped Adelaide and Myra escape from their prison cell. But will they be able to get away before King Berengar's soldiers find them again? And who will aid the virtuous queen in defeating her vicious…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Four: The Prisoners The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Queen Adelaide and her loyal maidservant, Myra, escaped from Castle Orbe. But they've been captured by Lord Berengar's men, and lie imprisoned in another castle dungeon. Now they wonder: will they ever see freedom a…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Three: Taking Flight The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 950 A.D. Despite Queen Adelaide’s warnings of danger in the court, her husband King Lothar refused to listen. Poisoned by a treacherous rival, his death leaves Adelaide with few allies to protect her. Now, she must use her …
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode Two: Becoming Queen The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 948 A.D. Reluctantly, Princess Adelaide has married Lothar, a man of questionable integrity. But as her faith and virtue begin to influence him, the couple receives startling news: Lothar will ascend the throne and Adelaide …
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Adelaide - Episode One: A Reluctant Bride The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, 947 A.D. It's Princess Adelaide's sixteenth birthday, but she's the only one not celebrating. Forced into a marriage she doesn’t want, she’s about to discover that God’s plans for her are even better than her own. This is…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Five: Rebirth France. 1148 A.D. Twenty years have passed since Drogo was sealed in his cold anchorite cell. Horribly deformed and still wracked with sadness, the once-handsome Drogo is visited by his faithful friends. Will his life of prayerful solitude and sacrifice finally gi…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Four: A Hero’s Welcome Rome, Italy. October, 1128 A.D. The young, handsome and troubled Drogo has been worn down by his many unsuccessful pilgrimages to Rome. But his faith is undeterred. Now, he faces the greatest challenge of his life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: htt…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Three: Road to Redemption France. October, 1124 A.D. Drogo has learned of his unique spiritual gift of bilocation, but still can’t shake his obsession: to confess his sins to the Holy Father in Rome. As he embarks on his quest to meet the pope, what challenges and adventures aw…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode Two: Communion France. 1124 A.D. Eighteen-year-old Drogo left the security of his home, seeking absolution for a sin he didn’t commit. Now, the troubled young man is convinced he can’t receive forgiveness unless he confesses to the Holy Father himself. Can his new friends in Fr…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Drogo - Episode One: Beautiful Stranger Flanders. 1123 A.D. In a world of faith and devotion, a handsome young man is haunted by a loss he can never forget. But his quest for forgiveness is just the beginning of a journey to discover the power and beauty of God’s perfect and infinite mercy. Th…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Five: The Great Fire Robinsonville, 1871. The Wisconsin summer is hot and dry with record breaking winds - the perfect conditions for wildfires. But fire isn’t the only danger facing Adele's new school. Lies and gossip have spread more quickly than the flames, and have…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Four: Mary’s Academy Spring, 1869. Ten years have passed since Adele began teaching the children of the Wisconsin frontier. With Our Lady's help, the settlers have gradually opened up their hearts and homes to Adele. Now she has so many students, she is raising money t…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Three: This Wild Country 1859. The woods near Robinsonville, Wisconsin. On their long hike home from Sunday Mass, Adele and her friends are stopped in their tracks. The lady in white has returned, revealing herself to be the Queen of Heaven! And now, she has a new miss…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Two: The Queen of Heaven October, 1859. As the harsh winter sets in, the settlers of Robinsonville work hard to prepare, using every last hour of daylight remaining. Meanwhile Adele is shaken by the strange appearance of the lady in white. Who could she be? And why has…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode One: Adele’s Promise The Wisconsin frontier. October, 1859. A young Belgian woman and her family struggle to stay alive in their harsh New World surroundings. They came to America for space, opportunity, and the promise of a new and prosperous life. But nature conspire…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Five: The Champion of the Dominicans Paris. 1256. Thomas arrives back in Paris, but not everyone is pleased at his return. With the Dominicans still distrusted by many in the Church, some will go to any lengths to drive Thomas and all the Dominicans into oblivion. 🌐 Subscrib…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Four: The Dumb Ox Aquino, Italy. 1245. The new year finds Thomas still locked in the castle tower, determined to stay until his brothers relent. But his sister Theodora has other ideas. With the help of some adventurous Dominican friars, she has a plan to free Thomas, and to…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Three: The Prisoner of Aquino Aquino, Italy. 1244 A.D. Imprisoned in a tower by his own family, Thomas is determined to become a Dominican friar. But how? When a mysterious visitor arrives from Naples with secret gifts, Thomas gets everything he needs to complete his first y…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode Two: A Dominican Fugitive Italy. 1244. With conflict between Pope and Emperor at a standstill, peace comes with a cost. Against his Father’s wishes, Thomas studies at the University of Naples rather than return to the Benedictines in Monte Cassino. But when even more disastr…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Thomas Aquinas - Episode One: The Knights of Aquino Italy. 1239 A.D. The Aquino family’s castle lies halfway between two powerful forces: The pope in Rome, and the Holy Roman Emperor in Naples. When conflict arises, which power will this noble family support? And will their youngest son fall in line…
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🏔️ 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? 🌐 Su…
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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 peasan…
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🏔️ 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 fro…
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🏔️ 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 starv…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Five: The Penitent As their interview comes to a close, Father Giovanni realizes the supernatural effects Maria's act of mercy has had in Alessandro's life, on her family, and all of Italy... 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspodcast.com/ Get free daily ep…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Four: The Angel Maria's holiness in radically forgiving Alessandro gives Father Giovanni the evidence he needs. But how can he make sense of a vicious murderer's conversion and transformation into a gentle man of faith? 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintspo…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Three: The Survivors Father Giovanni fills in the gaps of Alessandro's first-hand account with the testimony he received from Assunta Gorreti. There has been a horrible crime, but can he discover the evidence he’ll need to elevate her cause for canonization? 🌐 Subscribe for F…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Two: The Victim Intent on solving the mystery of Maria Goretti, the girl martyr already popularly revered across Italy, Holy See investigator Father Giovanni finds himself in the garden of a Capuchin monastery, slowly drawing out the details from the victim's murderer. 🌐 Subs…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode One: The Witness Italy, 1940. The memory of a murdered child has gripped the country for decades, causing a stir of devotion to her across the entire country. Now, a special investigator has been sent from Rome to discover the truth of her story. He begins with her family, bu…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Five: The Way of the Cross 1946: Poland’s suffering may finally be over. Her people are enjoying greater freedom, and Karol walks openly as a newly ordained priest. But this sense of relief is quickly scattered when Communism tightens its grip. Now Fat…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Four: Seminary Risking everything, Karol secretly enters a hidden seminary to begin his studies for the priesthood. But what he doesn’t know is something that could end his formation and his life. 🌐 Subscribe for Free Daily Episodes: https://thesaintsp…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Three: Living Flame Amidst the desolation of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Karol delves more deeply into the writings of St. John of the Cross, and discovers a new calling: to the holy priesthood! But as Communism rises and the Nazi invaders grow even…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode Two: The Dark While Poland slowly strangles in the grip of the Third Reich, Karol finds himself in “a dark night of the soul”. Yearning for consolation and guidance, he discovers the writings of a saint who speaks to him across the ages. 🌐 Subscribe fo…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ John Paul II: Karol Wojtyla in Poland - Episode One: Invasion Krakow, Poland. 1939. The unthinkable has come to pass: Hitler’s Nazis have invaded by air and land, and taken control of the country. With lives threatened and Polish culture being slowly eradicated, nineteen-year-old Karol Wojtyla is de…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Five: Miracle of the Sun Fatima, October 13th, 1917. The children prepare to meet the Lady for the sixth and final time. Today, they’ve been promised a miracle that everyone will see. As storm clouds gather over the Cova, will the anxious crowd witness the miracle and be…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Four: Kidnapped August 13th, 1917. Governor Santos has kidnapped Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco to prevent them from meeting the miraculous Lady at the Cova. As their parents desperately search for them, the Governor begins his interrogation, determined to put an end to t…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Three: Vision of Hell June 13th, 1917. Fatima. A month has passed since The Lady first appeared, and the children are shocked to find a crowd waiting at the Cova. Jacinta's slip of the tongue has spread their story across Portugal, igniting a firestorm of reactions. Some…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima - Episode Two: Many Rosaries May 1917. The world spirals into war, with Nazis and Communists rising to power. The faithful in Portugal pray for a miracle amidst growing religious persecution and global violence. In Fatima, three ordinary children, Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco, ar…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Our Lady of Fatima- Episode One: Angel of Peace Fatima, Portugal. 1916. The world is gripped by a world war of unspeakable scale. The new Portuguese First Republic prepares to join the war on the side of the allies. In Fatima, the governor begins imposing the government’s anti-Catholic policies on h…
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