Basil the Great: Episode Two
The Saints
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage
🗺️ Basil the Great - Episode Two: To Gain the Whole World
Athens. 356 A.D. In his first week away from home, Basil made friends with the emperor’s nephew, found a renowned teacher, and won a heated debate. But now, all that is on the line as his new friends invite him to join in a pagan ritual - an occult mockery of the Mass! Will Basil keep on the narrow way? Or follow his new friends - and abandon the faith?
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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 | Athens, 356 AD. In his first week away from home, Basil made friends with the Emperor's |
| 0:09.0 | nephew, found a renowned teacher and won a heated debate. But now, all of that is on the line, |
| 0:16.0 | as his new friends invite him to join in a pagan ritual, an occult mockery of the mass. |
| 0:23.6 | Will Basil keep on the narrow way or follow his new friends and abandon the faith? The Saints. |
| 0:38.9 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:42.0 | Basil the Great. |
| 0:43.8 | Episode 2. |
| 0:45.2 | To gain the whole world. |
| 0:47.3 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:54.6 | Is this the conclusion of your argument, Basil? |
| 0:58.0 | Are the Elyucinian mysteries |
| 0:59.6 | we're studying pagan philosophers leads you? |
| 1:02.8 | No, this is not what I argued for. |
| 1:05.6 | Basil, Maximus has taken you on, |
| 1:08.4 | given you this opportunity, |
| 1:09.8 | and now you're going to just walk away from him. |
| 1:12.5 | People will notice. Will you embarrass him like this? |
| 1:16.6 | Julian, I am a Christian. So am I. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, then stand up for your Christian faith. |
| 1:21.6 | A good Christian would have more respect for the authorities that have been placed over him. |
| 1:26.0 | Enough, Julian. |
| 1:28.9 | Come with me. |
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