Augustus Tolton: Episode Five
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode Five: We've Been Waitin'
Quincy, 1879. Rejected by every seminary he's applied to, Gus has lost direction and hope. His friends are beginning to wonder: will Gus ever fulfill his calling?
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Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Quincy 1879 rejected by every seminary he's applied to. |
| 0:07.0 | Gus has lost direction and hope. |
| 0:10.0 | Now his friends and mentors began to wonder. |
| 0:13.0 | Will Gus ever fulfill his calling? |
| 0:17.0 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage |
| 0:23.5 | Augustus Tolton |
| 0:25.2 | Episode 5 |
| 0:27.0 | We've been waiting |
| 0:28.5 | Listen to all the episodes |
| 0:30.7 | and discover new shows at the Saints |
| 0:32.6 | Podcast.com |
| 0:33.9 | The Saints Podcasts.com. Come. |
| 0:44.7 | Come in. |
| 0:47.2 | Father Richard. |
| 0:48.3 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:49.7 | Have you seen Gus today? |
| 0:51.0 | No, I haven't. |
| 0:56.2 | He was absent from Mass this morning and weren't you meant to have class with him? |
| 1:00.1 | Peter, I'm very worried about Gus. |
| 1:03.4 | I think this last rejection broke something in him. |
| 1:05.8 | Yes, I believe it did. |
| 1:09.0 | He doesn't care about his studies anymore, not like he used to. |
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