Basil the Great: Episode Four
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage
🗺️ Basil the Great - Episode Four: Persecution Comes
Village of Annesi. 368 A.D. Eight years have passed since Basil’s return home. Eight years of hard work and sacrifice. Basil and Macrina now run a new kind of monastery - an expansive, impressive city of prayer and almsgiving. While their monastery grows, a new emperor is rising to power.An emperor who sees this monastery, and Basil, as a threat to his pagan power…
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Basil embarks on a journey of courage, humility, faith, and charity. He resists worldly ambition, repents for his transgressions, and grows in his faith through humility, prayer, charity, and steadfast devotion to Christ, even when faced with persecution This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Characters face spiritual temptation, threats of damnation, persecution, mob unrest, soldiers looting homes, threats of torture and execution, religious conflict, starvation in the desert. The series contains references to martyrdom, death, and hell.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Village of Anesi, 368 AD. |
| 0:04.0 | Eight years have passed since Basil's return home. |
| 0:08.0 | Eight years of hard work and sacrifice. |
| 0:11.0 | Basil and Macrina now run a new kind of monastery, |
| 0:15.0 | an expansive, impressive city of prayer and almsgiving. |
| 0:19.0 | While their monastery grows, |
| 0:21.6 | a new emperor is rising to power, |
| 0:24.6 | an emperor who sees this monastery and Basel |
| 0:27.6 | as a threat to his pagan power. |
| 0:34.6 | The Saints |
| 0:37.9 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:41.7 | Basil the Great. |
| 0:43.6 | Episode four, persecution comes. |
| 0:47.0 | Listen to all the episodes |
| 0:48.2 | and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 1:00.3 | We're at... Wherein's Podcast.com. Where is this great Basil I keep hearing of? |
| 1:04.2 | Gregory? |
| 1:05.1 | Hello, Basil. |
| 1:06.5 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:08.0 | Years! |
| 1:09.0 | It's so good to see you, old friend. |
| 1:11.8 | You too, Basil. |
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