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Award Nominations for The Merry Beggars!

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 Articles, Entertainment

This article was written by Kevin Collins and originally published on TheMerryBeggars.com. The Merry Beggars are finalists in three award categories for the prestigious 2024 Gabriel Awards, presented annually by The Catholic Media Association (CMA)! The awards honor excellence in film, broadcast, and digital media productions released in the USA and Canada. The Gabriel Awards […]

Up next: Carlo Acutis

April 26, 2024April 24, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Though the life of Saint Dymphna was short, she had a profound impact – just like this coming week’s saint, Carlo Acutis! Born in 1991 in London, Carlo spent most of his life in Milan, Italy while his parents worked for their successful insurance company. He was cared for by many nannies, and to one […]

Up Next, on The Saints: Clare of Assisi

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture, posts

We hope you enjoyed the story of Stanley Rother, from Oklahoma to Guatemala! Now, “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” travels all the way back to the 1200s to a familiar face: Clare of Assisi. Inspired by the radical poverty Francis of Assisi embraced, Chiara Offreducio – Clare – and her sister Catarina (later […]

Coming Monday: Blessed Stanley Rother

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture, posts

Have you ever heard of Okarche, Oklahoma? That’s where the next story of “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” begins, with a venerated holy man from the United States. Blessed Stanley Rother was born in 1935, one of four children born to the Rother family in the middle of the Dust Bowl. He joined […]

Coming Monday: Paul Miki

March 29, 2024March 27, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

We hope the story of Edith Stein inspired you to live your faith more boldly! This week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage,” we have a similar story that unfolded nearly three hundred years before Edith was born. Paul Miki was a Japanese-born convert to the Catholic faith with a gift for speaking […]

Thank You! A Record-Breaking Pledge Drive

March 26, 2024March 25, 2024 Articles, Entertainment

Inviting our Audience into the Mission If you were tuning into Relevant Radio last Tuesday, you couldn’t help but hear about our Pledge Drive for The Merry Beggars. Founded in 2019, The Merry Beggars joined Relevant Radio in 2019 and became their family entertainment division. We have produced hundreds of episodes of productions like A Christmas […]

Next, on The Saints: Edith Stein

March 22, 2024March 20, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

This week’s upcoming saint has two names you might have heard before: Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, or Edith Stein. Edith was born into a Jewish family, but she was agnostic and searching for something more by the time she finished her doctoral thesis at 25. She read a biography of Teresa of Ávila and, […]

Coming Monday, the story of John Bosco!

March 15, 2024March 12, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

This coming week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” we leave the incredible foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and move to the patron of young children, students, publishers, and… magicians? Tune in for the remarkable story of a Salesian priest devoted to love, apprenticeship, and the care-filled […]

Back for his feast day, it’s Patrick of Ireland!

March 8, 2024March 7, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture, posts

Missed the start of “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage”? No worries – Patrick of Ireland returns, just in time for his feast day on St. Patrick’s Day! The story of Patrick has it all: teenage rebellion, conversion, and getting captured by pirates. Born in the Britannia part of the dissolving Roman Empire, Patrick […]

A missionary to Chicago: Frances Cabrini

March 1, 2024March 8, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Did you enjoy the thrilling story of Bernadette of Lourdes? We have another amazing story to follow, just in time for her movie coming this week: Frances Cabrini! This coming week, “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” follows a young Italian-American Catholic sister as her plans to make a mission in China… actually take […]

Coming Up: Bernadette of Lourdes

February 23, 2024February 22, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture, posts

We hope you enjoyed the story of Damien of Molokai as much as we did! “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” turns our attention to France in 1858, where, in a mountainous town called Lourdes, the oldest of the nine Soubirous children sees something that can only be explained by faith. Tune in for […]

Stay tuned for Damien of Molokai!

February 16, 2024February 27, 2024 Articles, Entertainment

Thanks for joining us for the story of Saint Valentine! This coming Monday, venture into the tropics of Molokai with Jozef de Veuster – known more commonly as Damien of Molokai. If you’re listening to our weekly Eucharistic Encounters series, you’ll be familiar with the story of Damien: he served the lepers in Hawai’i and […]

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