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#389
August 14 · 14 min
Jane De Chantal: Episode Five
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jane de Chantal - Episode Five: The Bishop France, 1604. The widowed Jane and her children have moved to her father-in-law’s vast country estate. But for them, it’s no proper home. When an invitation comes to return to her own father in Dijon, Jane eagerly accepts it. But what no one knows is how this visit will change the whole family - and the world. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Jane de Chantal's life teaches profound virtues of patience, faith, and charity. In the face of great suffering, she exemplified total faith in God. Her devotion as a wife, mother, and later a widow is a portrait of selflessness in daily life. Through her generosity and care for others, she demonstrated true Christian charity, transforming personal loss into a life of service. Her meeting with Saint Francis de Sales highlights the significance of courage in following God’s call. This series contains moments of intensity, including raised voices and arguments. Catholics and Protestants engage in a street brawl. As a child, Jane is angry with a Huguenot, and angrily tells him that he will go into the fire if he does not change his ways. A mother’s death in childbirth is referenced. Huguenots threaten to behead a Catholic. An eventually fatal hunting accident is described. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#388
August 13 · 12 min
Jane De Chantal: Episode Four
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jane de Chantal - Episode Four: The Vision France, 1601. Jane races to the side of her beloved Christophe, injured in a hunting accident. Will Christophe die of his wounds? And if he does, what will Jane and her family do? Is their dream of life and love, about to change forever? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Jane de Chantal's life teaches profound virtues of patience, faith, and charity. In the face of great suffering, she exemplified total faith in God. Her devotion as a wife, mother, and later a widow is a portrait of selflessness in daily life. Through her generosity and care for others, she demonstrated true Christian charity, transforming personal loss into a life of service. Her meeting with Saint Francis de Sales highlights the significance of courage in following God’s call. This series contains moments of intensity, including raised voices and arguments. Catholics and Protestants engage in a street brawl. As a child, Jane is angry with a Huguenot, and angrily tells him that he will go into the fire if he does not change his ways. A mother’s death in childbirth is referenced. Huguenots threaten to behead a Catholic. An eventually fatal hunting accident is described. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#387
August 12 · 9 min
Jane De Chantal: Episode Three
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jane de Chantal - Episode Three: Unexpected Events France, 1601. Jane and her husband Christophe have been happily married for nine years and are raising a young family. Now, as Baron Christophe returns home from France’s war with Spain, he and Jane have no idea how their lives are about to change. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Jane de Chantal's life teaches profound virtues of patience, faith, and charity. In the face of great suffering, she exemplified total faith in God. Her devotion as a wife, mother, and later a widow is a portrait of selflessness in daily life. Through her generosity and care for others, she demonstrated true Christian charity, transforming personal loss into a life of service. Her meeting with Saint Francis de Sales highlights the significance of courage in following God’s call. This series contains moments of intensity, including raised voices and arguments. Catholics and Protestants engage in a street brawl. As a child, Jane is angry with a Huguenot, and angrily tells him that he will go into the fire if he does not change his ways. A mother’s death in childbirth is referenced. Huguenots threaten to behead a Catholic. An eventually fatal hunting accident is described. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#686
August 11 · 11 min
Jane De Chantal: Episode Two
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jane de Chantal - Episode Two: The Mistress of Bourbilly France, 1589. When Jane's family home was ransacked by Huguenot thugs, her thirteen-year-old brother, Andre, was taken hostage. Now, an agreement has been reached, and Andre may be released. At Marguerite's house, Jane and her sister anxiously await their father’s arrival with news of their young brother. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Jane de Chantal's life teaches profound virtues of patience, faith, and charity. In the face of great suffering, she exemplified total faith in God. Her devotion as a wife, mother, and later a widow is a portrait of selflessness in daily life. Through her generosity and care for others, she demonstrated true Christian charity, transforming personal loss into a life of service. Her meeting with Saint Francis de Sales highlights the significance of courage in following God’s call. This series contains moments of intensity, including raised voices and arguments. Catholics and Protestants engage in a street brawl. As a child, Jane is angry with a Huguenot, and angrily tells him that he will go into the fire if he does not change his ways. A mother’s death in childbirth is referenced. Huguenots threaten to behead a Catholic. An eventually fatal hunting accident is described. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#685
August 10 · 10 min
Jane De Chantal: Episode One
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Jane de Chantal - Episode One: Dijon The city of Dijon. France. 1579. The Protestant Reformation has caused deep divisions between French Catholics and their Calvinist countrymen, known as “the Huguenots”. In one prominent Catholic family, a seven-year old girl has surprisingly strong opinions on the matter. This is the story of Jane de Chantal. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Jane de Chantal's life teaches profound virtues of patience, faith, and charity. In the face of great suffering, she exemplified total faith in God. Her devotion as a wife, mother, and later a widow is a portrait of selflessness in daily life. Through her generosity and care for others, she demonstrated true Christian charity, transforming personal loss into a life of service. Her meeting with Saint Francis de Sales highlights the significance of courage in following God’s call. This series contains moments of intensity, including raised voices and arguments. Catholics and Protestants engage in a street brawl. As a child, Jane is angry with a Huguenot, and angrily tells him that he will go into the fire if he does not change his ways. A mother’s death in childbirth is referenced. Huguenots threaten to behead a Catholic. An eventually fatal hunting accident is described. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#684
August 7 · 16 min
Elizabeth of Hungary: Episode Five
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth of Hungary - Episode Five: A New Vocation The Kingdom of Thuringia. 1227 A.D. While Elizabeth mourns the sudden loss of her husband, her brother in law Henry, wastes no time securing his power in the kingdom. He threatens Elizabeth's future and the future of her children, the rightful heirs of the Wartburg throne. Will Elizabeth and her family lose their position in the castle, or will Henry be put in check by the people of Thuringia? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Elizabeth of Hungary - princess, wife, and mother - pours herself out for the poor. She gives alms, bread, clothing, and even the treasures of the castle to the beggars at the gate. She exemplifies fortitude and hope as she bears the court's mockery, the murder of her mother, the loss of her beloved husband, exile, and separation from her children — clinging throughout to the Scripture her mother taught her: "Be strong and of good courage… for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." This series contains moments of fear and intensity. There are allusions to the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and to the Crusades. A leper covered in sores is brought into the castle, and the story dwells on a severe famine in which the starving strip bark from trees for food. The most intense event occurs in Episode 5, when the newly widowed Elizabeth and her infant are cast out of the castle into the snow. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#683
August 6 · 14 min
Elizabeth of Hungary: Episode Four
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth of Hungary - Episode Four: All Is Vanity The land of Thuringia. 1226 A.D. News of Elizabeth's miracles has spread throughout the kingdom. While the people love and admire her, Ludwig's family hates Elizabeth, and will stop at nothing to be rid of her. Will the young princess's generosity soften their hearts, or will they succeed in removing her? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Elizabeth of Hungary - princess, wife, and mother - pours herself out for the poor. She gives alms, bread, clothing, and even the treasures of the castle to the beggars at the gate. She exemplifies fortitude and hope as she bears the court's mockery, the murder of her mother, the loss of her beloved husband, exile, and separation from her children — clinging throughout to the Scripture her mother taught her: "Be strong and of good courage… for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." This series contains moments of fear and intensity. There are allusions to the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and to the Crusades. A leper covered in sores is brought into the castle, and the story dwells on a severe famine in which the starving strip bark from trees for food. The most intense event occurs in Episode 5, when the newly widowed Elizabeth and her infant are cast out of the castle into the snow. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#682
August 5 · 14 min
Elizabeth of Hungary: Episode Three
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth of Hungary - Episode Three: Miracles The land of Thuringia. 1223 A.D. The newlywed nobles, Ludwig and Elizabeth, celebrate the birth of their first child. Elizabeth strives to follow Lady Poverty and live a Franciscan way of life, despite the increasing opposition of the other nobles. Can Elizabeth continue her good works despite the resistance she faces? Or will the duties and expectations of being a courtly wife and mother crush her zeal? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Elizabeth of Hungary - princess, wife, and mother - pours herself out for the poor. She gives alms, bread, clothing, and even the treasures of the castle to the beggars at the gate. She exemplifies fortitude and hope as she bears the court's mockery, the murder of her mother, the loss of her beloved husband, exile, and separation from her children — clinging throughout to the Scripture her mother taught her: "Be strong and of good courage… for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." This series contains moments of fear and intensity. There are allusions to the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and to the Crusades. A leper covered in sores is brought into the castle, and the story dwells on a severe famine in which the starving strip bark from trees for food. The most intense event occurs in Episode 5, when the newly widowed Elizabeth and her infant are cast out of the castle into the snow. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#681
August 4 · 15 min
Elizabeth of Hungary: Episode Two
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth of Hungary - Episode Two: Jewels and Thorns The land of Thuringia. 1221 A.D. Betrothed as children, Ludwig and Elizabeth are now of age to marry. While the young princess delights Ludwig, her charity and goodness set her apart, and some members of the court are jealous. Will the two young nobles get married as promised? Or will Ludwig cave in to pressure, and send Elizabeth back to Hungary? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Elizabeth of Hungary - princess, wife, and mother - pours herself out for the poor. She gives alms, bread, clothing, and even the treasures of the castle to the beggars at the gate. She exemplifies fortitude and hope as she bears the court's mockery, the murder of her mother, the loss of her beloved husband, exile, and separation from her children — clinging throughout to the Scripture her mother taught her: "Be strong and of good courage… for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." This series contains moments of fear and intensity. There are allusions to the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and to the Crusades. A leper covered in sores is brought into the castle, and the story dwells on a severe famine in which the starving strip bark from trees for food. The most intense event occurs in Episode 5, when the newly widowed Elizabeth and her infant are cast out of the castle into the snow. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#680
August 3 · 14 min
Elizabeth of Hungary: Episode One
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Elizabeth of Hungary - Episode One: A Tale of Two Castles Hungary. 1211 A.D. As Europe's Christian armies venture to the Middle East to wage war in the Crusades, peace reigns in the kingdom of Hungary, where a young princess enjoys a happy childhood. But a single promise will change her world forever. This is the story of Elizabeth of Hungary. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Elizabeth of Hungary - princess, wife, and mother - pours herself out for the poor. She gives alms, bread, clothing, and even the treasures of the castle to the beggars at the gate. She exemplifies fortitude and hope as she bears the court's mockery, the murder of her mother, the loss of her beloved husband, exile, and separation from her children — clinging throughout to the Scripture her mother taught her: "Be strong and of good courage… for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." This series contains moments of fear and intensity. There are allusions to the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and to the Crusades. A leper covered in sores is brought into the castle, and the story dwells on a severe famine in which the starving strip bark from trees for food. The most intense event occurs in Episode 5, when the newly widowed Elizabeth and her infant are cast out of the castle into the snow. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#679
July 31 · 12 min
Stanley Rother: Episode Five
🏔️ 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 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Stanley Rother didn’t know the impact his life would have. He began as a humble Oklahoma farmboy; he became the face of Christ to the people of his part of rural Guatemala. Always humble, Rother exemplified virtues of courage and perseverance in his mission, as well as humility and faith to the end. This series contains moments of suspense and intensity, including arguments, raised voices, and threats of violence. Several characters are abducted for their faith. A search for an abducted character’s body is portrayed. A character is beaten for his faith. Mentions are made to death threats made against Catholics by the government. Soldiers are heard unloading bodies from a truck. There are mentions of torture. A character is beaten and shot in-scene. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#678
July 30 · 10 min
Stanley Rother: Episode Four
🏔️ 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 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Stanley Rother didn’t know the impact his life would have. He began as a humble Oklahoma farmboy; he became the face of Christ to the people of his part of rural Guatemala. Always humble, Rother exemplified virtues of courage and perseverance in his mission, as well as humility and faith to the end. This series contains moments of suspense and intensity, including arguments, raised voices, and threats of violence. Several characters are abducted for their faith. A search for an abducted character’s body is portrayed. A character is beaten for his faith. Mentions are made to death threats made against Catholics by the government. Soldiers are heard unloading bodies from a truck. There are mentions of torture. A character is beaten and shot in-scene. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#677
July 29 · 12 min
Stanley Rother: Episode Three
🏔️ 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 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Stanley Rother didn’t know the impact his life would have. He began as a humble Oklahoma farmboy; he became the face of Christ to the people of his part of rural Guatemala. Always humble, Rother exemplified virtues of courage and perseverance in his mission, as well as humility and faith to the end. This series contains moments of suspense and intensity, including arguments, raised voices, and threats of violence. Several characters are abducted for their faith. A search for an abducted character’s body is portrayed. A character is beaten for his faith. Mentions are made to death threats made against Catholics by the government. Soldiers are heard unloading bodies from a truck. There are mentions of torture. A character is beaten and shot in-scene. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#676
July 28 · 12 min
Stanley Rother: Episode Two
🏔️ 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://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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Stanley Rother didn’t know the impact his life would have. He began as a humble Oklahoma farmboy; he became the face of Christ to the people of his part of rural Guatemala. Always humble, Rother exemplified virtues of courage and perseverance in his mission, as well as humility and faith to the end. This series contains moments of suspense and intensity, including arguments, raised voices, and threats of violence. Several characters are abducted for their faith. A search for an abducted character’s body is portrayed. A character is beaten for his faith. Mentions are made to death threats made against Catholics by the government. Soldiers are heard unloading bodies from a truck. There are mentions of torture. A character is beaten and shot in-scene. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#675
July 27 · 11 min
Stanley Rother: Episode One
🏔️ 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 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 7+ Stanley Rother didn’t know the impact his life would have. He began as a humble Oklahoma farmboy; he became the face of Christ to the people of his part of rural Guatemala. Always humble, Rother exemplified virtues of courage and perseverance in his mission, as well as humility and faith to the end. This series contains moments of suspense and intensity, including arguments, raised voices, and threats of violence. Several characters are abducted for their faith. A search for an abducted character’s body is portrayed. A character is beaten for his faith. Mentions are made to death threats made against Catholics by the government. Soldiers are heard unloading bodies from a truck. There are mentions of torture. A character is beaten and shot in-scene. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#674
July 24 · 14 min
The Martyrs of Compiegne: Episode Five
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ The Martyrs of Compiegne - Episode Five: Intercession Paris. 1794. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced the sixteen Carmelite nuns to death. Tomorrow they face the guillotine. What will happen when those who are passionately standing for the cause of Christ are executed by those who have built their own idea of God? What will it mean for the salvation of France? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 10+ The Martyrs of Compiegne — sixteen Carmelite sisters — give their lives for God and for the conversion of France. Stripped of their monastery, their habits, and finally their freedom, they refuse to abandon their vows or their life of prayer, offering themselves as an act of intercession for their country and the Church. This series contains moments of extreme fear and intensity. It is set during the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary soldiers force their way into the monastery to seize its goods before the sisters are arrested and imprisoned. There are references to the wider violence of the Revolution, including the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and, at the end, of Robespierre. The most intense event is the climax, when the sixteen sisters are condemned as "enemies of the people" and go to the guillotine, singing as they die. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
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July 23 · 16 min
The Martyrs of Compiegne: Episode Four
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ The Martyrs of Compiegne - Episode Four: Enemies of the People Compiégne, France. 1794. Under the influence of Robespierre, the Revolutionary government is becoming more indiscriminate with its arrests…And its executions. When the sixteen Carmelite nuns are arrested, can the Lord's transforming love finally unite them as a community? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 10+ The Martyrs of Compiegne — sixteen Carmelite sisters — give their lives for God and for the conversion of France. Stripped of their monastery, their habits, and finally their freedom, they refuse to abandon their vows or their life of prayer, offering themselves as an act of intercession for their country and the Church. This series contains moments of extreme fear and intensity. It is set during the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary soldiers force their way into the monastery to seize its goods before the sisters are arrested and imprisoned. There are references to the wider violence of the Revolution, including the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and, at the end, of Robespierre. The most intense event is the climax, when the sixteen sisters are condemned as "enemies of the people" and go to the guillotine, singing as they die. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
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July 22 · 17 min
The Martyrs of Compiegne: Episode Three
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ The Martyrs of Compiegne - Episode Three: The Reign of Terror Compiégne, France. 1793. The sixteen Carmelite nuns are without their monastery, habits or familiar rhythms of prayer. Mother Prioress is leading the sisters in a daily consecration to God, but they are not united: Sister Euphrasia remains uncommitted to 'following the Lamb wherever He goes'. Meanwhile, in Paris, Queen Marie-Antoinette has been executed, and Robespierre's rising influence signals much more sinister things ahead... 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 10+ The Martyrs of Compiegne — sixteen Carmelite sisters — give their lives for God and for the conversion of France. Stripped of their monastery, their habits, and finally their freedom, they refuse to abandon their vows or their life of prayer, offering themselves as an act of intercession for their country and the Church. This series contains moments of extreme fear and intensity. It is set during the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary soldiers force their way into the monastery to seize its goods before the sisters are arrested and imprisoned. There are references to the wider violence of the Revolution, including the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and, at the end, of Robespierre. The most intense event is the climax, when the sixteen sisters are condemned as "enemies of the people" and go to the guillotine, singing as they die. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
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July 21 · 18 min
The Martyrs of Compiegne: Episode Two
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ The Martyrs of Compiegne - Episode Two: Follow the Lamb Compiégne, France. 1790. Revolutionary guards forcefully enter the monastery and seize anything of value, declaring it property of the nation. In Paris, Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins conspire to rid France of the Church and the monarchs for good. Stripped of the reality they once knew, the Carmelites look to God. Can their cloistered way of life ever return to normal…Or is that under threat too? 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 10+ The Martyrs of Compiegne — sixteen Carmelite sisters — give their lives for God and for the conversion of France. Stripped of their monastery, their habits, and finally their freedom, they refuse to abandon their vows or their life of prayer, offering themselves as an act of intercession for their country and the Church. This series contains moments of extreme fear and intensity. It is set during the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary soldiers force their way into the monastery to seize its goods before the sisters are arrested and imprisoned. There are references to the wider violence of the Revolution, including the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and, at the end, of Robespierre. The most intense event is the climax, when the sixteen sisters are condemned as "enemies of the people" and go to the guillotine, singing as they die. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
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July 20 · 18 min
The Martyrs of Compiegne: Episode One
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martyrs of Compeigne - Episode One: Revolution Knocks Compiégne, France. 1789. On the eve of the French revolution, a community of Carmelite women pursues a quiet life of prayer. King Louis the Sixteenth and Queen Marie Antoinette reign over Catholic France, but debt, poverty and resentment threaten to overturn everything. This is the story of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiégne. 🌐 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 Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week! 🚦 Rating: 10+ The Martyrs of Compiègne — sixteen Carmelite sisters — give their lives for God and for the conversion of France. Stripped of their monastery, their habits, and finally their freedom, they refuse to abandon their vows or their life of prayer, offering themselves as an act of intercession for their country and the Church. This series contains moments of extreme fear and intensity. It is set during the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary soldiers force their way into the monastery to seize its goods before the sisters are arrested and imprisoned. There are references to the wider violence of the Revolution, including the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and, at the end, of Robespierre. The most intense event is the climax, when the sixteen sisters are condemned as "enemies of the people" and go to the guillotine, singing as they die. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars

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