Episodes

  • Catherine of Siena: Episode Five
    Jun 6 2025

    🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

    🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Five: The Pope’s Protector

    Avignon. 1375. When her attempts to negotiate peace between the Anti-Papal League and Pope Gregory fall apart, Catherine dedicates herself completely to persuading the Pope to return to Rome. This is the only way to restore peace in Italy, and unity to the Church. But the young pope’s French family and his councilors will stop at nothing to keep the papacy in France.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.

    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.

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    12 mins
  • Catherine of Siena: Episode Four
    Jun 5 2025

    🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

    🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Four: Christ’s Scourge

    Italy, 1375. Bloody war continues between the Anti-Papal league and the French Papal legates. Rather than seek peace, Pope Gregory escalates the conflict by excommunicating the entire city of Florence. Catherine is on her way to Avignon, accompanied by Lapa and Raimondo, to persuade Gregory to not only seek peace, but to return to Rome.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.

    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.

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    13 mins
  • Catherine of Siena: Episode Three
    Jun 4 2025

    🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

    🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Three: God’s Servant

    France, 1375. Through Cardinal Noellet, Pope Gregory has allied himself with Bernabo Visconti, the tyrant of Milan. And if an alliance between the pope and a warlord weren’t scandal enough, Cardinal Noellet has made matters worse by demanding money from the people of Florence. As conflict between the French Pope and Italian city-states rises, Catherine Benincasa enters the fight in earnest.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.

    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.

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    14 mins
  • Catherine of Siena: Episode Two
    Jun 3 2025

    🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

    🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Two: The Pope’s Pawn

    Siena, Italy. 1375 A.D. Thirteen years have passed since Christ sent Catherine out into the world from her pseudo-monastic life. Now, Catherine's fame as a mystic and miracle worker has spread across Europe. Her spiritual children call her "Mamma", and hang on her every word. With her father dead and her mother now a member of her lay Dominican community, Catherine cares for victims of the plague that rages across Italy. And in France, a pope’s refusal to return to Rome threatens to undermine Church unity.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.

    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.

    📱 Social Media

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    14 mins
  • Catherine of Siena: Episode One
    Jun 2 2025

    🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

    🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode One: The Dyer’s Daughter

    Siena, Italy. 1362. A powerful tyrant has invaded the Papal States, forcing the Pope into exile in France. Meanwhile, a fifteen year old girl in Siena longs for life as a Third Order Dominican. While her parents arrange a marriage for her to protect their family interests, this special girl resists, insisting on marriage to the only spouse who can make her happy forever. This is the story of Catherine of Siena.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.

    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.

    📱 Social Media

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    16 mins
  • Martin de Porres: Episode Five
    May 30 2025

    🏔️ 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 its creditors.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Martin de Porres’s story teaches lessons of faith, justice, and mercy. Martin’s natural compassion leads him to caring especially for animals, from feeding a stray dog as a child to miraculously convincing an infestation of rats to leave the priory. Martin’s sacrificial spirit makes him willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his brothers. Martin’s life demonstrates how we are called to exercise true charity in a broken world.
    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays some characters’ racial animus and discrimination on the basis of race. Martin’s father, a prominent diplomat, refuses to acknowledge his mixed-race children or marry their mother. Martin is separated from his mother. Martin is verbally abused because of his heritage. Martin is initially refused entry to the monastery, but he perseveres. Martin offers to sell himself into slavery to pay off the monastery’s debts.

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    13 mins
  • Martin de Porres: Episode Four
    May 29 2025

    🏔️ 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 the city of Lima, divided by racial prejudice and poverty, open to the blessings of a mixed-race friar?

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Martin de Porres’s story teaches lessons of faith, justice, and mercy. Martin’s natural compassion leads him to caring especially for animals, from feeding a stray dog as a child to miraculously convincing an infestation of rats to leave the priory. Martin’s sacrificial spirit makes him willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his brothers. Martin’s life demonstrates how we are called to exercise true charity in a broken world.
    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays some characters’ racial animus and discrimination on the basis of race. Martin’s father, a prominent diplomat, refuses to acknowledge his mixed-race children or marry their mother. Martin is separated from his mother. Martin is verbally abused because of his heritage. Martin is initially refused entry to the monastery, but he perseveres. Martin offers to sell himself into slavery to pay off the monastery’s debts.

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    12 mins
  • Martin de Porres: Episode Three
    May 28 2025

    🏔️ 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 many of the friars mistreat Martin, the wise and compassionate Father Prior rejects their prejudice, recognizing that Martin carries a flame that could illuminate the most benighted corners of men’s hearts.

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    🚦 Rating: 7+

    Martin de Porres’s story teaches lessons of faith, justice, and mercy. Martin’s natural compassion leads him to caring especially for animals, from feeding a stray dog as a child to miraculously convincing an infestation of rats to leave the priory. Martin’s sacrificial spirit makes him willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his brothers. Martin’s life demonstrates how we are called to exercise true charity in a broken world.
    This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays some characters’ racial animus and discrimination on the basis of race. Martin’s father, a prominent diplomat, refuses to acknowledge his mixed-race children or marry their mother. Martin is separated from his mother. Martin is verbally abused because of his heritage. Martin is initially refused entry to the monastery, but he perseveres. Martin offers to sell himself into slavery to pay off the monastery’s debts.

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    14 mins
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