This week Christina and Victoria return to discuss one of the most conflicting saint they've done to date, Saint Catherine of Siena.

Sources:

Wikipedia:

      Catherine of Siena

https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=9 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Catherine-of-Siena

This week Victoria tells the odd story of St Peter Chanel, a French missionary martyred in Oceania.

Sources:

Wikipedia:

    Peter Chanel

    Montrevel-en-Bresse

    Uvea (Wallis and Futuna)

    Bay of Islands

    Akaroa

    Wallis & Futuna

    Fatuna (Wallis & Futuna)

    Barringtonia asiatica

    Vava’u

    Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

    Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Oceania

    Society of Mary (Marists)

    Belley

    Royal Monastery of Brou

    Crozet, Ain

    Cras-sur-Reyssouze

    Meximieux

    Montrevel-en-Bresse

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-peter-chanel/ 

https://www.simplycatholic.com/st-peter-chanel-a-missionary-to-oceania/

https://sacredwindows.com/st-peter-chanels-mission-was-a-total-failure-or-was-it/

This week, Victoria and Christina return from the holiday break to cover a previously discussed mystical event in detail. Here we cover Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto and their cousin Sister Lucia de Santos and their role in the visions of Our Lady of Fatima.

Sources:

Wikipedia

     Francisco and Jacinta Marto

     Three Secrets of Fatima

     Our Lady of Fatima

     Lucia de Santos

https://denvercatholic.org/francisco-jacinta-marto-great-saints-changed-history/

https://faith.nd.edu/s/1210/faith/interior.aspx?sid=1210&gid=609&pgid=13446&cid=28049&ecid=28049&crid=0

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saints-jacinta-and-francisco-marto/ 

For this Christmas week, Christina and Victoria are taking a break with family so we are rerunning one of our oddest and most popular episodes, Saint Nicholas! Whether you heard it the first time or are just now experiencing this oddity, enjoy the story of Saint Nicholas as told by Victoria. Buckle up!

*See the previous posting of this episode for the sources*

This week, Victoria takes us on a not so Christmassy story with the tale of Good "King" Wenceslas.

Sources:

Wikipedia:

     Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

     Stochov

     Otto the Great

     Blaník

     John Mason Neale

     Crown of St Wenceslas

     Sword of St Wenceslas

     Charles Bridge

     Good King Wenceslas

     Hungarians

     Henry the Fowler

     Polabian Slavs

     Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav

     Tetín (Beroun District)

     Great Moravia

     Duchy of Bohemia

     Cyril & Methodius

     Budeč (Kladno District)

     Zákolany

     Hevelli

     Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wenceslas-I-prince-of-Bohemia

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Wenceslas

This week, Christina tells the story of the Denver's Angel of Mercy, Servant of God Julia Greeley.

Sources:

Wikipedia

    Julia Greeley

    William Gilpin

    Colorado territory

    Denver City

Juliagreeley.org 

https://aleteia.org/2016/02/08/the-eyes-pull-you-in-writing-icons-for-the-greater-glory-of-god/ 

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/julia-greeley

https://blackandindianmission.org/servant-god-julia-greeley

This week, Victoria tells the story of the only catholic saint from Iceland, Saint Thorlak.

Sources:

Wikipedia:

    Fljótshlíð

    Saint Thorlak

    School of St Victor

    Rule of St Augustine

    Lincoln Cathedral

    Augustine of Hippo

    Þykkvibær

    Canon Regular

    Clerics Regular

    Secular Clergy

    Eysteinn Erlendsson

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nidaros

    Simony

    Reformation

    Skate (fish)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-thorlak-of-iceland-93

https://autismconsecrated.com/way-of-saint-thorlak/

https://nancymariebrown.blogspot.com/2013/12/music-for-saint-thorlaks-day.html#:~:text=These%20miracles%20provide%20a%20digest,a%20sledgehammer%2C%20and%20a%20ring.

Music:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0AdclO6c6EufbPirRxagg

This week, Christina tells the brief but odd story of Saint Macarius of Alexandria (but not Egypt!) and the odd situation of hundreds monks in the desert. 

Sources:

Wikipedia

    St Macarius of Alexandria

    Nitrian Desert

    Sozomen

    Palladius of Galatia

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG203478#:~:text=Saint%20Macarius%20of%20Alexandria%20was,miracles%20were%20ascribed%20to%20him.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2015/01/19/100227-venerable-macarius-of-alexandriahttps://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2015/01/19/100227-venerable-macarius-of-alexandria

https://stjohndc.org/en/orthodoxy-foundation/saints/st-macarius-alexandriahttps://stjohndc.org/en/orthodoxy-foundation/saints/st-macarius-alexandria

This week, Victoria tells the anachronistic story of St Maurice, an Egyptian in the Alps.

Sources:

Wikipedia:

     St Maurice

     Thebes

     Bagaudae

     Gaul

     Crisis of the 3rd Century

     Great St Bernard Pass

     Henry the Fowler

     Magdeburg Cathedral

     Our lady of laus

     Schiavi di Abruzzo

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Maurice

https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=368

https://www.johnblanke.com/st-maurice.html

This week Christina tells the story of St Roch, a Frenchman turned martyr. Christina also surprises Victoria with an unexpected contemporary saint. 

Sources:

Wikipedia:

    St Roch

    St Guinefort

    FT Prince

    Brotherhood of St Roch

Mendotapet.com

https://www.waterstones.com/book/later-on/f-t-prince/9780856461033