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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Saint Valentine - Episode Four: Reunited in Heaven

Rumors abound in Terni. Will Daria be put to death by the wicked Governor Placidus? Valentine watches the unfolding events, and visits Austerius to plead with him to help free Daria. And Placidus presents her with one last chance to save her life.

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🚦 Rating: 7+

Valentine strives to free Daria from Placidus’ clutches. Austerius begins to waver in his support of the Roman regime. Knowing that her death is imminent, Daria shows courage, prepared to be united with Christ and Chysanthus in Heaven.

This episode includes moments of intensity and raised voices. A character speaks mockingly of the faith. A character’s death by burial is referenced. A scourging is referenced. A Character is sentenced to death.

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🗺️ Saint Valentine - Episode Three: Heaven’s New Saint

The Christians of Terni gather in the catacombs to bid farewell to the martyred Chrysanthus. Bishop Valentine celebrates the funeral Mass. But the governor is angered at this public display of faith, and places his cruel attention on the widowed Daria.

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Daria remains steadfast in her faith, even after Chrysanthus’ death. Valentine counsels his congregation not to act rashly. He also continues to evangelize Austerius and Julia, who slowly draw nearer to the faith.

This episode contains scenes of emotional intensity and raised voices. A character’s death is mentioned. A funeral is portrayed. A character makes advances on Daria, who slaps him.   

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🗺️ Saint Valentine - Episode Two: A More Perfect Crown

Desperate to free Chrysanthus and Daria, Valentine and Eusebius offer the governor gold in exchange for their release. Placidus accepts, but at an enormous price, and Valentine must now raise it from his humble congregation. The young couple’s lives depend on it! 

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Valentine demonstrates prudence in his plan to free Chrysanthus and Daria. He also exercises Christian charity in caring for Julia’s blindness. Austerius chooses to help Chrysanthus and Daria, even if it means compromising his office. 

This episode contains raised voices and moments of intensity and suspense. Contains mentions of torture. A character dies in-scene after having been previously tortured. 

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🗺️ Saint Valentine - Episode One: Trouble in Turni

Central Italy, 257 A.D. Under a new Roman governor, the Christians of Terni face arrest and persecution for practicing their faith, and two young newlyweds are arrested for preaching in the streets. Now, what can their local bishop and friend do to save them from certain death? This is the story of St. Valentine.

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Valentine cares for the spiritual and physical health of his entire flock. He exhibits courage and ingenuity in visiting Daria in prison. Chrysanthus and Daria are steadfast in their love for each other and Christ in spite of persecution and imprisonment.  

This episode contains moments of intensity and fear. Christians are jailed for their faith. A character speaks disparagingly about the faith and about a blind character. Torture and scourging are referenced.

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🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Five: The Fortunate One

Bakhita’s faith has grown in her months with the Canossian Sisters. She’s learned to pray, and has even begun the difficult task of forgiving her tormentors. But when she refuses Maria’s demand that she return to Africa, her faith is put to the test, and she faces the greatest trial of her life.

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Bakhita demonstrates commitment to God’s will, even when her friend goes against it. 37 years later, the now-Mother Bakhita has fully forgiven her former captors, exemplifying Christian charity and peace. Going beyond herself, she teaches Sister Lucia to forgive Mother Dolorosa as well. 

Some moments of intensity, including discussions of slavery.  Moments of emotional intensity and raised voices between former friends. 

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🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Four: The House of God

Bakhita and little Mimmina arrive at the Institute of the Catechumens’ convent school in Venice. She still seeks the Maker of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, longing to find and know Him. But when Maria returns from Sudan, Bakhita is faced with a choice... 

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Bakhita’s hope turns to joy as she visits the convent of the Canossian sisters. Joy is added to joy as she receives instruction in the faith. Bakhita finds true freedom for the first time in God’s love, and moves toward forgiving her tormentors. 

This episode contains raised voices, incidental mentions of slavery, tattooing, and violence. An atheistic character speaks disparagingly about the faith. 

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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode Three: The Servant

The Ligurian coast. 1885. On a fine spring day in Genoa, sixteen year old Bakhita steps onto Italian soil, and tastes freedom for the first time since her abduction. What fortune awaits her in this foreign land? And will she ever be truly free?

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Arriving in Italy, Bakhita is finally treated with kindness. She exemplifies perseverance and hope. Most importantly, she meets illuminato Checchini, who introduces her to the master of the moon and the stars and gives her a crucifix.

This episode includes incidental mentions of slavery.

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🗺️  Josephine Bakhita - Episode Two: The Slave

Suakin, Sudan. 1883. Six long years have passed since Bakhita was abducted from her village. Abused and sold several times, she now finds herself, at the age of fourteen, enslaved by the cruelest people she has ever known. But are her fortunes about to change? 

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Bakhita journeys towards God in the face of her abuse at the hands of her cruel mistress. Through her worst years, Bakhita models the Christian response to suffering, keeping constant hope and trust in God, even if she doesn’t know Him yet. 

This episode mentions and depicts slavery, including raised voices and intensity, as well as sounds and description of a tattooing. A character slaps another character.

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🗺️ Josephine Bakhita - Episode One: The Awestruck Child

Turin, Italy, 1935. The normally quiet convent of Canossian religious sisters is in an uproar. A special visitor has arrived, a fellow sister born in faraway Sudan, in northeast Africa. She has come to relate the amazing story of her life. But can the sisters find her? This is the story of Josephine Bakhita.

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Mother Bakhita demonstrates forgiveness and love for the poor. She tells us of her childhood, where she grew up in a loving and happy family, talking honestly with her parents about her yearning to know the maker of the stars.

This episode includes some minor arguments between a religious sister and her superior. There are also moments of intensity and fear as a character is kidnapped. 

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