Basil the Great: Episode Three
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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🗺️ Basil the Great - Episode Three: Desert Fathers
North Africa. 360 A.D. Inspired by Macrina’s example, Basil has left everything to follow Christ! But in the desert he still needs food and water to survive. Taken in by a kindly desert hermit, Basil struggles to discover what God wants of him.
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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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| 0:00.0 | North Africa, 360 AD. |
| 0:04.0 | Inspired by Macrina's example, Basil has left everything to follow Christ. |
| 0:10.0 | But in the desert, he still needs food and water to survive. |
| 0:14.0 | Taken in by a kindly desert hermit, Basil struggles to discover what God wants of him. |
| 0:27.8 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:29.4 | Basil the Great. |
| 0:32.9 | Episode 3, Desert Fathers. |
| 0:38.2 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, holy God, holy mighty, holy mortal, Holy mortal, have mercy on us. |
| 1:06.0 | Where? Where am I? |
| 1:12.0 | Rest. |
| 1:12.9 | You're with a friend in a safe place. |
| 1:16.5 | Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:26.3 | Now and forever and unto ages of ages |
| 1:34.3 | A man |
| 1:37.3 | Here, drink |
| 1:43.3 | Okay, time to wake you up. |
| 1:52.4 | Where am I? Who are you? |
| 1:56.6 | Hush, hush, you're safe here. |
| 1:59.1 | What? Safe. From what? I... I have forsaken everything. |
| 2:05.1 | I... I need to go. I need to go back out into the desert. |
| 2:09.5 | Friend, you are starving to death. |
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