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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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Subscribe for Free at https://adventwithscrooge.com/ Get daily episodes of Scrooge's adventure every day of Advent! 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. Join us for a first-of-its-kind audio Advent Calendar as Charles Dickens reads A Christmas Carol in England, 1843. To discover other shows by The Merry Beggars, go to https://themerry ...
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On the Night Train

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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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🏔️ 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 Ame…
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🏔️ 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 Okarc…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Five: We’ve Only Just Begun Auschwitz. 1941. As hunger and thirst pull Fr. Kolbe toward death, he recalls a pivotal moment in the early days of the Militia Immaculatae. Now, as Nazi guards observe him in his prison cell, only one question is on their minds: How long can t…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Four: A Torrent of Obstacles Rome. 1917. Returning from the hospital, Brother Kolbe wastes no time in forming the Militia Immaculatae. The first members are eager to begin, but face a torrent of obstacles. In 1941, Fr. Kolbe, dehydrated and clinging to life, prays with th…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Three: A Different Kind of Army 1917. 23-year-old Raymund Kolbe is a Franciscan Brother and seminarian in Rome. His studies have occupied all his time and energy over the last seven years. But the young Kolbe still feels that he isn’t doing enough. In 1941, Fr. Kolbe figh…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode Two: Days of Discernment Ukraine, 1910. 16-year-old Raymund Kolbe is in his third year at Lviv’s Jr. Seminary. His faith has continued to grow strong. But as the day of his initial vows draws near, he worries he can’t keep both the vows of the priesthood - and the vows he…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Maximillian Kolbe - Episode One: A Knightly Heart Poland. 1941, the second year of the Nazi Occupation of Poland. In the most infamous concentration camp of the war, an escape has taken place. The remaining prisoners of Auschwitz are now being punished for their comrades’ freedom. One Polish priest,…
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ 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 …
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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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Our Lady of Fatima: Episode One Description: 🏔️ 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…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Five: To the Top! On the second floor of the grand Frassati mansion, Pier Giorgio lies paralyzed in bed, cut down at twenty-four years of age by a mysterious affliction. Doctor Sarto arrives to care for him. As daring plans take shape to get a medicine which could cur…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Four: A Turning Point One day after Pier Giorgio's arrest. Daylight breaks in the jail cell where we left Pier Giorgio, Father Matteo, and the three fascist blackshirts. But something has happened - an event that has changed the hearts of everyone. 🌐 Subscribe for Fre…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Three: It’s Nothing October 1922: Mussolini and his fascist supporters march on the Italian capitol of Rome, finally taking control of the government. Celebrations and protests are mounted all over Italy. Against his father's advice, Pier Giorgio attends an anti-fasci…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Two: There You Feel Free High above Turin, Pier Giorgio and Marco lead a group of young friends on a mountain trek. As they near the top, some in their party have fallen far behind. When Pier Giorgio descends to help those in need, he shares a surprising little secret…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode One: And Now We Run 1922. A new technology - radio - fills the airwaves with jazz and news from across the world. In Italy, the fascist leader Benito Mussolini promises a new era of greatness. But in the wealthy northern city of Turin, at the foot of the Piedmont moun…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josemaria Escriva - Episode Five: Through the Mountains November, 1937. Low on rations, hungry, tired, and frightened, Josemaria and his friends are sustained by faith. As the smugglers lead them up through the Pyrenees, republican death squads scour the mountains, hunting them down. Will the men of…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josemaria Escriva - Episode Four: Smuggling Saints November, 1937. Josemaria, Alvaro, Isidoro and Juan say goodbye to their loved ones, beginning their escape to freedom through Andorra and France. It’s a treacherous mountain journey, full of danger and the constant threat of betrayal and death. Pla…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josemaria Escriva - Episode Three: Storm of Persecution March, 1937. Madrid, Spain. As the Spanish civil war rages on, Father Josemaria is still undercover, posing as “Doctor Marañon” at the insane asylum. But how long will he be safe in Madrid? When the anti-Catholic militias conduct another search…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josemaria Escriva - Episode Two: Seeking Asylum August, 1936. Madrid. Following the assassination of Calvo Sotelo, Spain has descended into chaos, the rule of law has broken down, and armed militias are openly hunting and murdering their political enemies, including Catholic priests. Now the young m…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Josemaria Escriva - Episode One: Dreams Fall Short Spain, 1936. A country on the brink of civil war. As sectarianism rips Spain apart, no one can escape its murderous grip. But in the midst of bitter partisanship, hatred and mistrust, one young priest holds hope for unity, and proposes a different w…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Genesius - Episode Five: Walking the Walk Rome, 303 AD. the Vicennalia festival. During a mock baptism onstage, Genesius has a vision of his sins and the mercy offered by God through baptism. Regaining consciousness, Genesius finds himself in the middle of the colosseum with a new perspective.…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Genesius - Episode Four: Show Time Rome, 303 AD. The day has finally come. Emperor Diocletian has arrived in Rome to celebrate 20 years as emperor. This is the day that Crassus and Genesius have spent three months rehearsing for. But with Rufus and Alba now in prison, and his heart pulled in a…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Genesius - Episode Three: Stage Fright Rome, 303 AD. It’s the day before the Vicennalia, the festival celebrating Diocletian’s anniversary as emperor. Genesius is torn by his guilt for hurting Rufus and Alba. Meanwhile, Crassus, Genesius, and the troupe are preparing to perform for the emperor…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Genesius - Episode Two: Sealing the Deal Rome, 303 AD. It’s the day of the Augustalia festival. Every year, Romans crowd the Forum to watch actors perform plays and honor the emperor as one of the gods. Christians would normally avoid this festival, But Rufus and Alba have made an exception th…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Saint Genesius - Episode One: Talking the Talk Rome, 303 AD. Emperor Diocletian struggles to unite an unwieldy and crumbling empire. The new Christian religion has torn many Romans away from traditional imperial paganism. In response to this, Diocletian issues an edict making Christian worship illeg…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Howard - Episode Five: Imprisoned and Free 1583. The English Channel. As Philip sails to Brussels, encouraged by a letter forged by Queen Elizabeth, his ship is accosted by an unknown vessel. While Philip fears that he may never reach the continent, he is unaware of the greater danger that hi…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Howard - Episode Four: Danger in Service England, 1583. Three years later. Philip and Anne have been secretly hiding Catholic priests in their home. With Queen Elizabeth sending her spies throughout England, Philip and Anne live under the constant danger of discovery and execution. As Queen E…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Howard - Episode Three: Discovering Faith 1580. With his grandfather's death, Philip Howard receives the title of Earl of Arundel. Joining the House of Lords, Philip finds himself excited by the prospect of public service. But when his guardian, Lord Burghley, invites him to watch a debate in…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Howard - Episode Two: Indulgence and Neglect England, 1572. With a secret letter delivered after his execution, Thomas Howard leaves his final wishes for his son Philip Howard. Forced to marry against his will and burdened by his family’s history, Philip faces a choice. Will he abandon his fa…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Philip Howard - Episode One: Unwanted Duty England, 1571. The Protestant Reformation has shaken the foundations of Europe. In the ten years since taking the throne, Queen Elizabeth the first has worked tirelessly to repress the Catholic faith. Catholics throughout England practice their faith in sec…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Moses the Black - Episode Five: A Gift for the Church The Monastery, 387 AD. Moses has lived in the monastery for 20 years, praying, fasting, and working alongside his new brothers as they offer their lives to Jesus. But everything changes when Abba Isidore makes a surprising request - asking Moses …
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Moses the Black - Episode Four: Three Scoundrels The Monastery, 367 AD. After four months at the monastery, Moses is finally learning to trust in the love of God, rather than his own strength. His path towards God seems clear until he is attacked by robbers from the world he thought he had left behi…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Moses the Black - Episode Three: A New Master The Monastery of Scetis, 367 AD. Challenged by Abbot Isidore, Moses leaves behind his life of robbery. Coming face to face with his past, Moses strives for a new goal: holiness. But when his past gets in the way, will Moses abandon the monastery or will …
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Moses the Black - Episode Two: On the Run 367 AD. In the nine years since he escaped from slavery, Moses has become a notorious criminal, leading a gang of seventy robbers who plunder the district of Alexandria. Today, Moses plans to exact revenge on his former master, Pomponius, unaware that this r…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Moses the Black - Episode One: Lord of the Robbers 358 AD. Alexandria, Egypt, the biggest city in the Empire after Rome itself, is home to every level of society, from the wealthiest aristocrats to the poorest slaves. One slave, released by his master, embarks on a life of crime, unaware that he is …
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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 🗺️ Junipero Serra - Episode Five: Going the Distance Mission San Diego. Alta California. 1769. Having barely survived the Kumeyaay attack, Junipero and his friends take stock of their situation. With no supplies or soldiers to protect them, should they retreat to Mexico, or face starvation and massacre…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Junipero Serra - Episode Four: Missionaries at Last Baja California. 1769. Fifty-five-year-old Father Junipero Serra has been in New Spain for almost twenty years. He and the Franciscans have done much good, serving the indigenous peoples throughout the Mexican wilderness. Now, the King of Spain sen…
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Junipero Serra - Episode Three: Uncertain Destination Back in Mexico City after the ordeal in the Sierra Gorda, Junipero and his companions enjoy a moment of rest. But not for long! A massacre far north at the Texan Mission San Saba threatens all-out-war between the Comanche Indians and the Spanish.…
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