The Saints

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Five: Followers

As followers begin to join his ranks, Francis seeks greater confirmation from God. Will rebuilding San Damiano, a ruined church, matter at all? Can God use these impoverished beggars to build His Kingdom? But as more people begin to follow Francis, he begins to attract enemies as well.

🌐 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: Everyone

Francis and his followers consult the Bible to discern God’s will. There are joyful followers who join Francis in following God. Francis and Chiara pray for those who are attempting to stop them from following God.

Chiara’s uncle Rainoldo pursues her on horseback to stop her joining the convent. He threatens her and Francis, but is unsuccessful. 

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Four: Renunciation

Calling Francis a thief, Pietro drags him in front of the Bishop in the town square, the piazza. Accused of theft and disrespect, Francis is humiliated. Will Francis face punishment for selling the family’s silks to rebuild San Damiano? Have his dreams of serving God been destroyed before they ever began? 

🌐 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: Everyone

Francis witnesses to God’s love in front of a crowd, sacrificing everything to follow God. His friend Aldous follows him and joins his order. He inspires others with his love of God.

Francis is accused of theft by his father and the Bishop in the town square. The crowd laughs at him and insults him. Francis removes all of his clothes in front of the crowd and is naked in front of the crowd.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Three: San Damiano

After angering his father by touching a leper, Francis’ father Pietro commands him to meet with Bishop Guido. But as he waits to meet Bishop Guido, God is preparing Francis for a divine mission that will impact the world for thousands of years. Something that not even the Bishop can imagine. 

🌐 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+

Francis enjoys God’s presence in nature. Francis talks with a Bishop to discern God’s influence in his life. He discovers the San Damiano crucifix in the ruins of the church and hears God’s voice speaking to him.

Francis, looking for money to help the church, steals fabric from his father’s fabric store. His father Pietro becomes angry and yells at his son Francis for stealing fabric from the store. His mother Pica tries to intervene.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode Two: The Leper

Recovering at home after being captured in war, Francis slowly comes back to health. But as he returns to normal life, he is not the same. His behavior draws attention and hurts the family reputation. A voice from his dreams haunts him: “Will you follow the man or the master?”

🌐 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+

Francis speaks about the emptiness of worldly glory, starting on his journey to discover God. He experiences peace and God’s presence in the middle of nature. He encounters a leper and gives him a hug, encouraging and loving him. 

Francis’ father is angry at him for being absent-minded. Francis receives a kiss from Delphine, a woman at the party, who proposes dancing instead of talking about God. Francis’ father, Pietro, yells at Francis in anger and accuses him of being influenced by the Devil.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Francis of Assisi - Episode One: The Knight

Assisi, Italy. 1202 A.D. Francesco di Bernardino is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, Italy. Between lavish parties and manly sport, Francesco doesn’t have much time for God. But when he joins the war between Assisi and Perugia, his life is fated to change. Forever. This is the true story of Francis of Assisi.

🌐 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+

We meet Francis when he is still secular in his heart, partying with his friends and striving for worldly glory. His parents are proud of him, but his Father is focused on worldly success. He flirts with a woman at a party. The emptiness of worldly success is shown to be empty.

Francis and his friends show disgust at lepers when they approach them. He declares his desire to go to war and there is a brief war scene. There are sounds of battle and shouting in battle. Francis is sick and imprisoned, coughing in a jail. Sounds of water dripping in jail cells and sickness.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Five: To the Top!

On the second floor of the grand Frassati mansion, Pier Giorgio lies paralyzed in bed, cut down at twenty-four years of age by a mysterious affliction. Doctor Sarto arrives to care for him. As daring plans take shape to get a medicine which could cure him, Pier Giorgio gives Marco some vitally important tasks.

🌐 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+

Pier Giorgio Frassati approaches death with strong faith, praying with his family and friends. His charity and kindness has drawn crowds to his funeral, surprising his family with his witness to the faith.

Pier Giorgio Frassati is given a fatal health diagnosis by a doctor. Father Matteo gives him last rites. There is a moving scene as Pier Giorgio approaches death. Themes of death and emotional suffering might be too mature 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 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Four: A Turning Point

One day after Pier Giorgio's arrest. Daylight breaks in the jail cell where we left Pier Giorgio, Father Matteo, and the three fascist blackshirts. But something has happened - an event that has changed the hearts of everyone.

🌐 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+

Pier Giorgio Frassati talks with Father Matteo about his vocation and the faith. He continues to earnestly discern his vocation and the direction that God is calling him.

Tense conversation between Pier Giorgio Frassati and his father Alfredo. Pier Giorgio has a health crisis when his friends are about to go out for a boating expedition. Smaller children may be frightened by the sudden health crisis.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Three: It’s Nothing

October 1922: Mussolini and his fascist supporters march on the Italian capitol of Rome, finally taking control of the government. Celebrations and protests are mounted all over Italy. Against his father's advice, Pier Giorgio attends an anti-fascist demonstration in Turin.

🌐 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+

Pier Giorgio Frassati defends his friend in a fight with Mussolini’s fascists. Pier Giorgio says a rosary while imprisoned, mentioning St. Paul as a role model for him.

There is a sense of foreboding and violence as Pier Giorgio Frassati attends a political event. Violence breaks out at a protest with Mussolini’s fascist blackshirts. Punches are thrown between Pier Giorgio Frassati, his friend Marco, and blackshirt fascists. Police arrest Pier Giorgio Frassati.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode Two: There You Feel Free

High above Turin, Pier Giorgio and Marco lead a group of young friends on a mountain trek. As they near the top, some in their party have fallen far behind. When Pier Giorgio descends to help those in need, he shares a surprising little secret that few people know.

🌐 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: Everyone

Pier Giorgio Frassati hikes a mountain with his friends, encouraging them throughout. Valerie, one of the hikers falls behind, and Pier Giorgio Frassati goes back to encourage and support her. He displays natural courage and virtue. Throughout, he teaches his friends to pray, sing, and recognize God in creation.

His friends leave behind Valeria with Pier Giorgio Frassati.

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars 

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

🗺️ Pier Giorgio Frassati - Episode One: And Now We Run

1922. A new technology - radio - fills the airwaves with jazz and news from across the world. In Italy, the fascist leader Benito Mussolini promises a new era of greatness. But in the wealthy northern city of Turin, at the foot of the Piedmont mountains, a handsome young man blessed with everything struggles to hear God's voice in the midst of the noise. This is the story of Pier Giorgio Frassati.

🌐 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: Everyone

Pier Giorgio Frassati is shown encouraging his friends to practice their Catholic faith, inviting them to Mass and to pray in Church. His faith is expressed joyfully, including instances of him serving the poor. Pier Giorgio discusses his vocation and future with Marco.

Pier Giorgio Frassati’s friend Marco is dismissive of his prayer life, teasing him about it. There is tension between Pier Giorgio and his father Alfredo about Pier Giorgio’s future. 

📱 Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.instagram.com/themerrybeggars 
https://twitter.com/themerrybeggars 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/themerrybeggars