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#670
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
#669
July 17 · 15 min
Rose Philippine Duchesne: Episode Five
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rose Philippine Duchesne - Episode Five: The Woman Who Prays Always Florissant, Missouri, 1840. Despite a terrifying start in the New World, Philippine and her sisters are thriving - building schools for English and French settlers. But Philippine’s desire for mission work is still unrealised. Now a Jesuit priest arrives with an offer that could fulfill her childhood dream. But is it too late? 🌐 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+ Rose Philippine Duchesne grows from a young girl in pre-Revolutionary France, inspired by a missionary priest's tales, into a professed sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She crosses a dangerous ocean and endures poverty, illness, and hardship on the American frontier. Set against the French Revolution, the series states plainly that the uprising will see the king and queen killed and tens of thousands executed. Soldiers kick open the monastery doors, drag the elderly superior to her feet, and wrench Philippine's arm until she cries out, as the sisters scream. A priest anoints a dying man, and the nuns later find their chapel desecrated. In the New World, the sisters witness a slave auction where men, women, and children are sold, and hear of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death," in which over nine hundred people were forcibly removed and more than forty died, most of them children. The voyage brings violent storms, and one cliffhanger leaves an ailing Philippine collapsed in a snowbank as a wolf howls. Along with recurring references to smallpox, illness, and death, these moments of danger and historical cruelty might warrant parental guidance for younger listeners. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#668
July 16 · 16 min
Rose Philippine Duchesne: Episode Four
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rose Philippine Duchesne - Episode Four: Departure Paris, France, 1815. Thanks to Philippine, the Sainte Marie monastery is reopened - a new home for Mother Sophie Barat’s Society of the Sacred Heart. Mother Barat keeps Philippine close as her personal secretary. She values Philippine’s administrative skills, but delays any plans for missionary work in the New World. Philippine is forty-six years old. Time is running out. Will Philippine’s missionary dreams die quietly in a Paris office? 🌐 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+ Rose Philippine Duchesne grows from a young girl in pre-Revolutionary France, inspired by a missionary priest's tales, into a professed sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She crosses a dangerous ocean and endures poverty, illness, and hardship on the American frontier. Set against the French Revolution, the series states plainly that the uprising will see the king and queen killed and tens of thousands executed. Soldiers kick open the monastery doors, drag the elderly superior to her feet, and wrench Philippine's arm until she cries out, as the sisters scream. A priest anoints a dying man, and the nuns later find their chapel desecrated. In the New World, the sisters witness a slave auction where men, women, and children are sold, and hear of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death," in which over nine hundred people were forcibly removed and more than forty died, most of them children. The voyage brings violent storms, and one cliffhanger leaves an ailing Philippine collapsed in a snowbank as a wolf howls. Along with recurring references to smallpox, illness, and death, these moments of danger and historical cruelty might warrant parental guidance for younger listeners. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#667
July 15 · 12 min
Rose Philippine Duchesne: Episode Three
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rose Philippine Duchesne - Episode Three: Society of the Sacred Heart Grenoble, France, 1802. Philippine is in hiding. She and Josephine risk their lives helping underground priests bring sacraments to the dying. Philippine’s beloved Sainte Marie is in ruins, ransacked by soldiers. Public Masses are outlawed. The church bells are silent. But with Napoleon in power, all this is 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+ Rose Philippine Duchesne grows from a young girl in pre-Revolutionary France, inspired by a missionary priest's tales, into a professed sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She crosses a dangerous ocean and endures poverty, illness, and hardship on the American frontier. Set against the French Revolution, the series states plainly that the uprising will see the king and queen killed and tens of thousands executed. Soldiers kick open the monastery doors, drag the elderly superior to her feet, and wrench Philippine's arm until she cries out, as the sisters scream. A priest anoints a dying man, and the nuns later find their chapel desecrated. In the New World, the sisters witness a slave auction where men, women, and children are sold, and hear of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death," in which over nine hundred people were forcibly removed and more than forty died, most of them children. The voyage brings violent storms, and one cliffhanger leaves an ailing Philippine collapsed in a snowbank as a wolf howls. Along with recurring references to smallpox, illness, and death, these moments of danger and historical cruelty might warrant parental guidance for younger listeners. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#666
July 14 · 12 min
Rose Philippine Duchesne: Episode Two
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rose Philippine Duchesne - Episode Two: Revolution Grenoble, France, 1788. Five years have passed since Philippine's father pulled her from the monastery. Her family pushes her toward an arranged marriage. Especially now, as the streets of France erupt in revolution — but Philippine still longs for religious life. With the Church under siege and her future uncertain, can Philippine find a way to answer her calling? 🌐 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+ Rose Philippine Duchesne grows from a young girl in pre-Revolutionary France, inspired by a missionary priest's tales, into a professed sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She crosses a dangerous ocean and endures poverty, illness, and hardship on the American frontier. Set against the French Revolution, the series states plainly that the uprising will see the king and queen killed and tens of thousands executed. Soldiers kick open the monastery doors, drag the elderly superior to her feet, and wrench Philippine's arm until she cries out, as the sisters scream. A priest anoints a dying man, and the nuns later find their chapel desecrated. In the New World, the sisters witness a slave auction where men, women, and children are sold, and hear of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death," in which over nine hundred people were forcibly removed and more than forty died, most of them children. The voyage brings violent storms, and one cliffhanger leaves an ailing Philippine collapsed in a snowbank as a wolf howls. Along with recurring references to smallpox, illness, and death, these moments of danger and historical cruelty might warrant parental guidance for younger listeners. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#665
July 13 · 12 min
Rose Philippine Duchesne: Episode One
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Rose Philippine Duchesne - Episode One: The Dream France, 1781. A nation stands on the edge of revolution. As the old regime teeters toward collapse, the Catholic faith faces mounting persecution. But in the city of Grenoble, a young girl dreams of becoming a missionary in the New World. Her calling will demand more courage and sacrifice than she ever imagined. This is the story of Rose Philippine Duchesne. 🌐 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+ Rose Philippine Duchesne grows from a young girl in pre-Revolutionary France, inspired by a missionary priest's tales, into a professed sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She crosses a dangerous ocean and endures poverty, illness, and hardship on the American frontier. Set against the French Revolution, the series states plainly that the uprising will see the king and queen killed and tens of thousands executed. Soldiers kick open the monastery doors, drag the elderly superior to her feet, and wrench Philippine's arm until she cries out, as the sisters scream. A priest anoints a dying man, and the nuns later find their chapel desecrated. In the New World, the sisters witness a slave auction where men, women, and children are sold, and hear of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death," in which over nine hundred people were forcibly removed and more than forty died, most of them children. The voyage brings violent storms, and one cliffhanger leaves an ailing Philippine collapsed in a snowbank as a wolf howls. Along with recurring references to smallpox, illness, and death, these moments of danger and historical cruelty might warrant parental guidance for younger listeners. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#664
July 10 · 14 min
Louis and Zelie: Episode Five
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Louis and Zelie - Episode Five: The Wedding Feast 1877. Louis and Zelie are still struggling to understand the mystery of Léonie's bad behavior. While baby Therese is now a strong, healthy, adorable little girl, Zelie's poor health has reached a crisis point. 🌐 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+ Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, trusted in God's providence through many joys and sorrows. Their example teaches married couples how to seek sainthood, both as spouses and as parents. In their sacrificial love for each other and their children, they reveal the joy of self-giving, showing how ordinary family life can be a path to holiness. This series contains moments of emotional intensity. Louis and Zelie struggle to trust in God’s will for them. The deaths of children due to illness is portrayed. Parents struggle with the loss of a child. Voices are raised in arguments. The series ends with the death of a parent from cancer. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#663
July 9 · 13 min
Louis and Zelie: Episode Four
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Louis and Zelie - Episode Four: Will of Iron 1873. Louis and Zelie have now lost not just one, but two young children. Marie and Pauline are thriving in boarding school. Léonie has joined them there. Zélie's lace business is booming, but Louis must leave frequently for business trips in Paris. On top of all this, Zelie learns she’s expecting another child at the age of forty-two. 🌐 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+ Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, trusted in God's providence through many joys and sorrows. Their example teaches married couples how to seek sainthood, both as spouses and as parents. In their sacrificial love for each other and their children, they reveal the joy of self-giving, showing how ordinary family life can be a path to holiness. This series contains moments of emotional intensity. Louis and Zelie struggle to trust in God’s will for them. The deaths of children due to illness is portrayed. Parents struggle with the loss of a child. Voices are raised in arguments. The series ends with the death of a parent from cancer. 📱 Social Media https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars
#662
July 8 · 14 min
Louis and Zelie: Episode Three
🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Louis and Zelie - Episode Three: Ora Et Labora Alençon, France. 1870. Twelve years after their wedding, Louis and Zelie are the happy parents of five little girls. But juggling two businesses and a household of five young children is no small task. What does life hold next for Louis and Zelie? 🌐 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+ Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, trusted in God's providence through many joys and sorrows. Their example teaches married couples how to seek sainthood, both as spouses and as parents. In their sacrificial love for each other and their children, they reveal the joy of self-giving, showing how ordinary family life can be a path to holiness. This series contains moments of emotional intensity. Louis and Zelie struggle to trust in God’s will for them. The deaths of children due to illness is portrayed. Parents struggle with the loss of a child. Voices are raised in arguments. The series ends with the death of a parent from cancer. 📱 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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