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March 19, 2025March 17, 2025 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids

Have you been inspired by “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage?” Give that gift that uplifts the whole family – the next generations of holy men and women – with today’s One-Day Pledge Drive: “Give to Inspire Future Saints!” “Give to Inspire Future Saints!” supports The Merry Beggars, the entertainment division at Relevant Radio […]

Back for an encore, it’s Pier Giorgio Frassati!

June 28, 2024June 27, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Alongside Carlo Acutis, the saint featured this week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” is going to be canonized in 2025! Pier Giorgio Frassati lived a short life dedicated to the poor in Turin, Italy. Born on Holy Saturday in 1901, his mother was painter, and his father a printer. He had one […]

A founder for “The Saints”: Josemaría Escrivá

June 21, 2024June 20, 2024 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, Family and Kids

This week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage”, we move from an actor and martyr to a writer and founder: Josemaría Escrivá! Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was born in 1902, the second of six in his Spanish family. He had first felt a calling to something great after seeing a monk […]

“The Saints” presents Saint Genesius – an actor!

June 14, 2024June 13, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Once upon a time in Rome, a comedian starred in plays that mocked the Christian rites and beliefs. Little did that comedian know how drastically his views of that faith would change! Genesius of Rome (Saint Genesius) was born sometime in the third century in Rome and worked as an actor in a troupe. While […]

Earl of Arundel, coming Monday on The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage

June 7, 2024June 11, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Saints can be anyone, from the poorest servants to kings and queens. This week, “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” features a saintly Earl in London: Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel. Born on June 28th, 1557, Howard was the heir to the Duke of Norfolk and baptized Catholic, though he received a Protestant education. […]

This Monday, on “The Saints”: Moses the Black

May 31, 2024May 24, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Coming up this week, on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage,” we’re getting to know the story of a Desert Father with an incredible conversion: Moses the Black. Moses was born in the year 330 AD in Ethiopia and was a slave to a government official until he was dismissed for suspected crimes. He […]

This week on “The Saints”: Joan of Arc

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Back for an encore, “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” features the story of Joan of Arc! Joan was born in 1412 in the small French village of Domrémy. She had four siblings – one sister and three brothers – and lived during the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. The difficulty of […]

Coming Monday: Junipero Serra

May 17, 2024May 15, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

This week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage,” we leave Saint Charbel in the desert and turn our attention to the Apostle of California: Junipero Serra! Serra was born on November 24, 1713 in Majorca, Spain as Miguel José. He was raised working in the fields and among Franciscan friars. He had a […]

Next on “The Saints”: Saint Charbel

May 10, 2024May 6, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

Do you know who the patron saint of Lebanon is? He’s our featured saint on Monday, May 13th! Youssef Antoun Malkhouf is known as the “Miracle Monk of Lebanon” and was born in the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Lebanon) on May 8th, 1828. From his days as a young cow herder, Youssef was inspired by the […]

American Eucharistic Witnesses: Blessed Stanley Rother—The Shepherd Who Didn’t Run

May 10, 2024May 9, 2024 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, News and Culture, posts

The American Eucharistic Witnesses series is published in the Heart of the Revival newsletter and republished by Relevant Radio. This series highlights the holy men and women who lived, loved, and served on the very soil upon which we now stand. They all testify—in unique and powerful ways—to what it means to encounter Jesus in […]

Coming Monday: the story of Gianna Molla

May 3, 2024April 29, 2024 Articles, Entertainment, Family and Kids, News and Culture

A busy pediatrician, servant of the poor, wife, and mother: Gianna Molla did all she could for God’s people, right down to giving her very life for another. Gianna was born in Magenta, not far from Milan where Carlo Acutis lived, in 1922 on the feast of Francis of Assisi (her parents were Third Order […]

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 […]

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