Hey, friends! Today's Saint Friend is an ordinary, everyday son of a poor farming family who, through prayer and devotion to the Church found his way into the bishop's chair while trying over and over to start a religious order. So let's start this new season off with our new friend: Saint Anthony Mary Gianelli.

So who are our new Saint Friends? 

Hey, friends! Today we are revisiting the most blessed of all Saint Friends. Using the typology found in Luke's Gospel, we'll uncover the meaning behind this very special title given to her. I hope you have your Bible ready for a journey that spans generations as we talk about our old friend and spiritual mother: Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant.

Hey, friends! Women in the Bible don't get featured a lot but when they do, you know they are important. Today's Saint Friend was personally healed by Jesus and ended up as one of the first people to find out he had been raised from the dead. Let's go to the empty tomb with our new friend: Saint Joanna the Myrrhbearer.

Hey, friends! How does a poor shepherd boy from Spain end up as the patron Saint of groups devoted to the Eucharist? Can you get in trouble for being too generous to the poor? Find out as we meet our new friend today: Saint Paschal Baylón.

Hey, friends! Today we are meeting a priest who inherited a huge fortune, wanted to travel to Mexico, and became close friends with a number of other people who all are named as Saints today. Let's go to early-Renaissance Spain and meet our new friend, Saint John of Avila.

Hey, friends! Today is a special two-for-one episode about two more of Jesus’ Apostles. One had a number of documented interactions with Jesus in the Bible while the other seems to be barely a footnote in history but they are both equally important. Let’s walk among the original Twelve with our new friends: Saint Philip and Saint James the Lesser.

Hey, friends! Today we learn about the growth of the earliest days of the Church under the guidance of the third pope ever. Walk the ancient streets of Rome today as we meet our new friend: Pope Saint Cletus.

Hey, friends! Today we are learning all about a Saint who was one of the most popular in the world for a time but today, we aren't even sure if we actually know his name. Either way, let's find out how God can work through someone even if they are anonymous with our new friend: Saint Expeditus.

Hey, friends! Today we are meeting a pope who did more to fight against heretics that almost any other pope but that's not what he's known for. Instead, he is remembered for making one of the biggest decisions about the calendar ever and it still affects us today. So let's find out how the decision was made as to when the angels were really heard on high with our new friend: Pope Saint Julius I.